Re: [PATCH v2] um: vector: Fix memory leak in vector_config

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Jan 04 2023 - 05:17:55 EST


On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:18 AM Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kstrdup() return newly allocated copy of the string.
> Call kfree() to release the memory when uml_parse_vector_ifspec() fails.
>
> Fixes: 49da7e64f33e ("High Performance UML Vector Network Driver")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> changes in v2:
> - only call kfree() when uml_parse_vector_ifspec() fails.

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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