Re: [PATCH] scsi: be_iscsi: fix possible memory leak and refactorcode

From: James Bottomley
Date: Sun Nov 17 2013 - 16:39:22 EST


On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 19:09 -0200, Geyslan Gregório Bem wrote:
> 2013/11/17 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 15:51 -0300, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> >> This patch fix memory leakage in cases 'ISCSI_NET_PARAM_VLAN_ID' and
> >> 'ISCSI_NET_PARAM_VLAN_PRIORITY' and refactors code 'going out' when
> >> necessary.
> >
> > You pointlessly renamed a variable, which makes the diff hard to read.
> > Please don't do that.
>
> Ok, I can agree. 'len' means length? What is returned in case of non
> error?

it returns the length of buf written to or negative error.

> > You missed the fact that the passed in pointer is unmodified if
> > mgmt_get_if_info() returns non zero, so the kfree frees junk and would
> > oops.
> >
> > There's no need for a goto; len = -EINVAL; does everything that's
> > needed.
>
> Well, that is a coverity catch. CID 1128954. Check it.

I didn't say coverity was wrong, I said your patch was (well not wrong,
just over complex and incomplete). This is the way to fix both
problems.

James

---

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_iscsi.c
index ffadbee..9dcbdfa 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_iscsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_iscsi.c
@@ -541,10 +541,8 @@ static int be2iscsi_get_if_param(struct beiscsi_hba *phba,
ip_type = BE2_IPV6;

len = mgmt_get_if_info(phba, ip_type, &if_info);
- if (len) {
- kfree(if_info);
+ if (len)
return len;
- }

switch (param) {
case ISCSI_NET_PARAM_IPV4_ADDR:
@@ -569,7 +567,7 @@ static int be2iscsi_get_if_param(struct beiscsi_hba *phba,
break;
case ISCSI_NET_PARAM_VLAN_ID:
if (if_info->vlan_priority == BEISCSI_VLAN_DISABLE)
- return -EINVAL;
+ len = -EINVAL;
else
len = sprintf(buf, "%d\n",
(if_info->vlan_priority &


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