Hello.
On 9/30/2016 3:11 PM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
The call to krealloc() in wsm_buf_reserve() directly assigns the newly
returned memory to buf->begin. This is all fine except when krealloc()
failes we loose the ability to free the old memory pointed to by
Fails.
buf->begin. If we just create a temporary variable to assign memory to
and assign the memory to it we can mitigate the memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
index 680d60e..12fad99 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
@@ -1807,16 +1807,18 @@ static int wsm_buf_reserve(struct wsm_buf *buf, size_t extra_size)
{
size_t pos = buf->data - buf->begin;
size_t size = pos + extra_size;
+ u8 *tmp;
size = round_up(size, FWLOAD_BLOCK_SIZE);
- buf->begin = krealloc(buf->begin, size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
- if (buf->begin) {
- buf->data = &buf->begin[pos];
- buf->end = &buf->begin[size];
- return 0;
- } else {
- buf->end = buf->data = buf->begin;
+ tmp = krealloc(buf->begin, size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
+ if (tmp) {
!tmp, you mean?
+ wsm_buf_deinit(buf);
return -ENOMEM;
}
+
+ buf->begin = tmp;
+ buf->data = &buf->begin[pos];
+ buf->end = &buf->begin[size];
+ return 0;
}
MBR, Sergei
