Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: fix a memory leak bug

From: Tudor.Ambarus
Date: Mon Aug 19 2019 - 02:03:54 EST




On 08/18/2019 08:39 PM, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> In spi_nor_parse_4bait(), 'dwords' is allocated through kmalloc(). However,
> it is not deallocated in the following execution if spi_nor_read_sfdp()
> fails, leading to a memory leak. To fix this issue, free 'dwords' before
> returning the error.

Looks good. Would you add a Fixes tag?
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> index 03cc788..a41a466 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> @@ -3453,7 +3453,7 @@ static int spi_nor_parse_4bait(struct spi_nor *nor,
> addr = SFDP_PARAM_HEADER_PTP(param_header);
> ret = spi_nor_read_sfdp(nor, addr, len, dwords);
> if (ret)
> - return ret;
> + goto out;
>
> /* Fix endianness of the 4BAIT DWORDs. */
> for (i = 0; i < SFDP_4BAIT_DWORD_MAX; i++)
>