Re: [PATCH] ubifs: fix memory leak on error condition

[Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/11/2018 21:42, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 15. November 2018, 21:38:50 CET schrieb Garry McNulty:
>> If the call to ubifs_read_nnode() fails in ubifs_lpt_calc_hash() an
>> error is returned without freeing the memory allocated to 'buf'.
>> Jump to 'out' label to free allocated memory and return the error code.
>>
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID 1441025 ("Resource leak")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Garry McNulty <garrmcnu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/ubifs/lpt.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/lpt.c b/fs/ubifs/lpt.c
>> index d1d5e96350dd..c162459a1e02 100644
>> --- a/fs/ubifs/lpt.c
>> +++ b/fs/ubifs/lpt.c
>> @@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ int ubifs_lpt_calc_hash(struct ubifs_info *c, u8 *hash)
>>  	if (!c->nroot) {
>>  		err = ubifs_read_nnode(c, NULL, 0);
>>  		if (err)
>> -			return err;
>> +			goto out;
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	cnode = (struct ubifs_cnode *)c->nroot;
> 
> Please see:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2018-October/085081.html
> 
> If Colin won't send a v2, please do you so, then I'll take your v2.

Please take Garry's V2, sorry, I somehow overlooked doing a V2.

> 
> Thanks,
> //richard
> 
> 


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