Hi Armin On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, at 2:09 PM, Armin Wolf wrote: > When retriving a item string with tlmi_setting(), the result has to be > freed using kfree(). In current_value_show() however, malformed > item strings are not freed, causing a memory leak. > Fix this by eliminating the early return responsible for this. > > Reported-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Link: > https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/01e920bc-5882-ba0c-dd15-868bf0eca0b8@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t > Fixes: a40cd7ef22fb ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Add WMI interface > support on Lenovo platforms") > Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v2: > - Add Reported-by: and Link: tags > --- > drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c > b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c > index cc66f7cbccf2..8cafb9d4016c 100644 > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c > @@ -930,10 +930,12 @@ static ssize_t current_value_show(struct kobject > *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *a > /* validate and split from `item,value` -> `value` */ > value = strpbrk(item, ","); > if (!value || value == item || !strlen(value + 1)) > - return -EINVAL; > + ret = -EINVAL; > + else > + ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value + 1); > > - ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value + 1); > kfree(item); > + > return ret; > } > > -- > 2.30.2 Thanks for doing this - it was on my todo list but you beat me to it. As a minor note - the Fixes tag should, I think, be Fixes: 0fdf10e5fc96 ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Split current_value to reflect only the value") As that's when I believe I introduced the issue. Mark