Re: [PATCH] cifs: Fix a tiny potential memory leak

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merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next

thx

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 12:19 PM Dan Carpenter via samba-technical
<samba-technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The most recent "it" allocation is leaked on this error path.  I
> believe that small allocations always succeed in current kernels so
> this doesn't really affect run time.
>
> Fixes: 54be1f6c1c37 ("cifs: Add DFS cache routines")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
> index cd63c4a70875..09b7d0d4f6e4 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
> @@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static int get_tgt_list(const struct dfs_cache_entry *ce,
>                 it->it_name = kstrndup(t->t_name, strlen(t->t_name),
>                                        GFP_KERNEL);
>                 if (!it->it_name) {
> +                       kfree(it);
>                         rc = -ENOMEM;
>                         goto err_free_it;
>                 }
> --
> 2.17.1
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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