Re: [PATCH] scsi: elx: efct: fix memory leak in efct_hw_parse_filter()

[Daniel Wagner]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 09:35:18PM +0500, Vitaliy Shevtsov wrote:
> strsep() modifies the address of the pointer passed to it so that it no
> longer points to the original address. This means kfree() gets the wrong
> pointer.
> 
> Fix this by passing unmodified pointer returned from kstrdup() to kfree().
> 
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace.
> 
> Fixes: 4df84e846624 ("scsi: elx: efct: Driver initialization routines")
> Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Shevtsov <v.shevtsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx>