Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value. There is no need to preserve data in the buffer, so replace krealloc() by kfree()-kmalloc() pair. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c b/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c index 1cbb449..9a99f43 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c @@ -271,9 +271,10 @@ static int adjd_s311_update_scan_mode(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, const unsigned long *scan_mask) { struct adjd_s311_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev); - data->buffer = krealloc(data->buffer, indio_dev->scan_bytes, - GFP_KERNEL); - if (!data->buffer) + + kfree(data->buffer); + data->buffer = kmalloc(indio_dev->scan_bytes, GFP_KERNEL); + if (data->buffer == NULL) return -ENOMEM; return 0; -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html