Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > In compat_do_replace(), a temporary buffer is allocated through vmalloc() > to hold entries copied from the user space. The buffer address is firstly > saved to 'newinfo->entries', and later on assigned to 'entries_tmp'. Then > the entries in this temporary buffer is copied to the internal kernel > structure through compat_copy_entries(). If this copy process fails, > compat_do_replace() should be terminated. However, the allocated temporary > buffer is not freed on this path, leading to a memory leak. > > To fix the bug, free the buffer before returning from compat_do_replace(). > > Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
