strsep() modifies its first argument - buf. If an error occurs in the parsing loop, an invalid pointer will be passed to the free() function. Make the pointer passed to free() match the return value of read_text_file(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: 9413e7640564 ("kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms") Signed-off-by: Elena Salomatkina <esalomatkina@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c index 6bf9caca0968..03774957d8b9 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c +++ b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static int parse_source_files(const char *objfile, struct md4_ctx *md) /* Calc and record src checksum. */ void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen) { - char *buf; + char *buf, *orig; struct md4_ctx md; char *fname; char filelist[PATH_MAX + 1]; @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen) /* objects for a module are listed in the first line of *.mod file. */ snprintf(filelist, sizeof(filelist), "%s.mod", modname); - buf = read_text_file(filelist); + orig = buf = read_text_file(filelist); md4_init(&md); while ((fname = strsep(&buf, "\n"))) { @@ -406,5 +406,5 @@ void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen) md4_final_ascii(&md, sum, sumlen); free: - free(buf); + free(orig); } -- 2.33.0