If we fail when copying the ioctl() struct to userspace we still need to clean up the cruft otherwise left behind or it will stay around until the issuing process terminates the file handle. Reported-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index b195ec406ff4..69efe278f74d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -488,8 +488,10 @@ static int linehandle_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip) } handlereq.fd = fd; - if (copy_to_user(ip, &handlereq, sizeof(handlereq))) - return -EFAULT; + if (copy_to_user(ip, &handlereq, sizeof(handlereq))) { + ret = -EFAULT; + goto out_free_descs; + } dev_dbg(&gdev->dev, "registered chardev handle for %d lines\n", lh->numdescs); @@ -784,8 +786,10 @@ static int lineevent_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip) } eventreq.fd = fd; - if (copy_to_user(ip, &eventreq, sizeof(eventreq))) - return -EFAULT; + if (copy_to_user(ip, &eventreq, sizeof(eventreq))) { + ret = -EFAULT; + goto out_free_irq; + } return 0; -- 2.4.11 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html