There is a potential memory leak when acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_eobject() failed, because return_buffer was allocated in acpi_ut_initialize_buffer() when buffer type is ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER or ACPI_ALLOCATE_LOCAL_BUFFER, and will not be freed outside when the return value is not AE_OK for acpi_evaluate_object(), fix it. Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c index a1b0b88..8ad792b 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c @@ -424,6 +424,11 @@ acpi_evaluate_object(acpi_handle handle, status = acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_eobject( info->return_object, return_buffer); + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) && + (buffer_space_needed == ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER || + buffer_space_needed == ACPI_ALLOCATE_LOCAL_BUFFER)) { + ACPI_FREE(return_buffer); + } } } -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html