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authorPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-12-09 18:00:53 +0800
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-09-20 16:15:33 +1000
commit0d0fecc5b5bfddb0e67bef985cdeda2eac7ad6d8 (patch)
treef0cde1a3c27e0f6b43e22e2e86135d50655fff6c /arch
parent49d09bf2a66f4b5a6eabefb0d4c0f03f21810553 (diff)
powerpc/nvram: Fix a memory leak in err path
If kmemdup fails, We need kfree *buff* first then return -ENOMEM. Otherwise there is a memory leak. Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 46c3c76f171b..6cd3a45880c0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -542,9 +542,9 @@ static ssize_t nvram_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
time->tv_nsec = 0;
}
*buf = kmemdup(buff + hdr_size, length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kfree(buff);
if (*buf == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- kfree(buff);
*ecc_notice_size = 0;
if (err_type == ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ)