[PATCH] staging: r8188eu: fix a memory leak in rtw_mp_pwrtrk()

From: Jianglei Nie
Date: Thu Dec 09 2021 - 08:25:57 EST


Line 5968 (#1) allocates a memory chunk for input by kmalloc().
Line 5973 (#2), line 5989 (#4) and line 5994 (#5) free the input
before the function returns while line 5986 (#3) forget to free it,
which will lead to a memory leak. This bug influences all stable
versions from 5.15.1 to 5.15.7.

We should kfree() input in line 5986 (#3).

5960 static int rtw_mp_pwrtrk(struct net_device *dev,
5961 struct iw_request_info *info,
5962 struct iw_point *wrqu, char *extra)
5963 {
5968 char *input = kmalloc(wrqu->length, GFP_KERNEL);
// #1: kmalloc space
5970 if (!input)
5971 return -ENOMEM;
5972 if (copy_from_user(input, wrqu->pointer, wrqu->length)) {
5973 kfree(input); // #2: kfree space
5974 return -EFAULT;
5975 }

5980 if (strncmp(input, "stop", 4) == 0) {
5981 enable = 0;
5982 sprintf(extra, "mp tx power tracking stop");
5983 } else if (sscanf(input, "ther =%d", &thermal)) {
5984 ret = Hal_SetThermalMeter(padapter, (u8)thermal);
5985 if (ret == _FAIL)
5986 return -EPERM; // #3: missing kfree
5987 sprintf(extra, "mp tx power tracking start,
target value =%d ok ", thermal);
5988 } else {
5989 kfree(input); // #4: kfree space
5990 return -EINVAL;
5991 }

5994 kfree(input); // #5: kfree space

6000 return 0;
6001 }

Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index 0eccce57c63a..906a57eae1af 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -5982,8 +5982,10 @@ static int rtw_mp_pwrtrk(struct net_device *dev,
sprintf(extra, "mp tx power tracking stop");
} else if (sscanf(input, "ther =%d", &thermal)) {
ret = Hal_SetThermalMeter(padapter, (u8)thermal);
- if (ret == _FAIL)
+ if (ret == _FAIL) {
+ kfree(input);
return -EPERM;
+ }
sprintf(extra, "mp tx power tracking start, target value =%d ok ", thermal);
} else {
kfree(input);
--
2.25.1