[PATCH] blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()

From: Li Zefan
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 23:19:18 EST


If passing a string with leading white spaces to strstrip(),
the returned ptr != the original ptr.

This bug was introduced by me.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 10 +++++-----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index b32ff44..921ef5d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -1377,12 +1377,12 @@ static int blk_trace_str2mask(const char *str)
{
int i;
int mask = 0;
- char *s, *token;
+ char *buf, *s, *token;

- s = kstrdup(str, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (s == NULL)
+ buf = kstrdup(str, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (buf == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- s = strstrip(s);
+ s = strstrip(buf);

while (1) {
token = strsep(&s, ",");
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ static int blk_trace_str2mask(const char *str)
break;
}
}
- kfree(s);
+ kfree(buf);

return mask;
}
--
1.5.4.rc3
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