Re: [PATCH] Fix leak in drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c::iscsi_copy_param_list()

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On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 00:28 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> We leak memory if the allocations for 'new_param->name' or 'new_param->value' fail.
> We also do a lot of variable assignments that are completely pointless
> if the allocations fail.
> So, let's move the allocations before the assignments and also make
> sure that we free whatever was allocated to one if the allocation for
> another fails.

> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
[]
> +		new_param->name = kmalloc(strlen(param->name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		new_param->value = kmalloc(strlen(param->value) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
[]
>  		memcpy(new_param->name, param->name, strlen(param->name));
>  		new_param->name[strlen(param->name)] = '\0';
>  		memcpy(new_param->value, param->value, strlen(param->value));

kstrdup

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