This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr()
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-pseries-fix-potential-memleak-in-papr_get_at.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9d10279974da04240b0b55dac1c0c6da1db3b85e
Author: Qiheng Lin <linqiheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Dec 8 21:34:49 2022 +0800
powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr()
[ Upstream commit cda9c0d556283e2d4adaa9960b2dc19b16156bae ]
`buf` is allocated in papr_get_attr(), and krealloc() of `buf`
could fail. We need to free the original `buf` in the case of failure.
Fixes: 3c14b73454cf ("powerpc/pseries: Interface to represent PAPR firmware attributes")
Signed-off-by: Qiheng Lin <linqiheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20221208133449.16284-1-linqiheng@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c
index 526c621b098be..eea2041b270b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c
@@ -101,10 +101,12 @@ static int papr_get_attr(u64 id, struct energy_scale_attribute *esi)
esi_buf_size = ESI_HDR_SIZE + (CURR_MAX_ESI_ATTRS * max_esi_attrs);
temp_buf = krealloc(buf, esi_buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (temp_buf)
+ if (temp_buf) {
buf = temp_buf;
- else
- return -ENOMEM;
+ } else {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_buf;
+ }
goto retry;
}
