Re: [PATCH] fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c: fix potential memory leakage

[Steve French]

merged into cifs-2.6.git

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:20:58 -0500
> Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> When it goes to error through line 144, the memory allocated to *devname is
>> not freed, and the caller doesn't free it either in line 250. So we free the
>> memroy of *devname in function cifs_compose_mount_options() when it goes to
>> error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c |    2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
>> index ce5cbd7..210fce2 100644
>> --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
>> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
>> @@ -226,6 +226,8 @@ compose_mount_options_out:
>>  compose_mount_options_err:
>>       kfree(mountdata);
>>       mountdata = ERR_PTR(rc);
>> +     kfree(*devname);
>> +     *devname = NULL;
>>       goto compose_mount_options_out;
>>  }
>>
>
> Nice catch. Looks correct to me. Should this also go to stable?
>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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