Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: alienware-wmi: fix kfree on potentially uninitialized pointer

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On 03/04/2019 23:26, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:05:12PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
>> On 03/04/2019 23:02, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:17:12AM +0000, Colin King wrote:
>>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Currently the kfree of output.pointer can be potentially freeing
>>>> an uninitalized pointer in the case where out_data is NULL. Fix this
>>>> by reworking the case where out_data is not-null to perform the
>>>> ACPI status check and also the kfree of outpoint.pointer in one block
>>>> and hence ensuring the pointer is only freed when it has been used.
>>>>
>>>> Also replace the if (ptr != NULL) idiom with just if (ptr).
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: ff0e9f26288d ("platform/x86: alienware-wmi: Correct a memory leak")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the catch Colin, queued for testing.
>>>
>>> Did you trigger this error or detect it via review or static analysis?
>>>
>> Static analysis, I'm now running a licensed version of Coverity on one
>> of our servers.
> 
> We typically include the tool used to identify such bugs, and I see several such
> tags for Coverity in the logs. Was there a reason not to include that tag? If
> just an oversight, can you provide that tag and I'll amend the commit.
> 
I didn't have an external coverity CID# number so I omitted it this time.



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