Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: fdt: fix memory leak in fdt_ensure_space

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Hello Ahmad,

On 31.01.24 18:15, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
Hello Stefan,

On 31.01.24 17:56, Stefan Kerkmann wrote:
If the reallocation failed the old memory remains allocated and is never
freed, this is fixed by freeing the old memory on error.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Kerkmann <s.kerkmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/of/fdt.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 5c21bab5de..4f79a6120f 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -375,24 +375,37 @@ static void *memalign_realloc(void *orig, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize)
static int fdt_ensure_space(struct fdt *fdt, int dtsize)
  {
+	size_t new_size;
+	void *previous;
+
  	/*
  	 * We assume strings and names have a maximum length of 1024
  	 * whereas properties can be longer. We allocate new memory
  	 * if we have less than 1024 bytes (+ the property size left.
  	 */
  	if (fdt->str_size - fdt->str_nextofs < 1024) {
-		fdt->strings = realloc(fdt->strings, fdt->str_size * 2);
-		if (!fdt->strings)
+		previous = fdt->strings;
+		new_size = fdt->str_size * 2;
+
+		if ((fdt->strings = realloc(previous, new_size)) == NULL) {

IMO, it's less readable this way. I'd prefer we leave the realloc line and
then !fdt->strings check on separate lines as before.

Applied.

+			free(previous);

This could happen later in the callers (look for out_free) if one wouldn't
set fdt->strings to NULL on error. I don't feel strongly either way, so doing
it this way is fine too.


Freeing the previous memory should happen in this function IMHO. In this way `fdt->[strings|dt]` can be set to `NULL` and the caller will get a segfaulty reminder if they choose to ignore error returned from the function and still access `fdt->[strings|dt]`.

Change looks good otherwise, so with first comment addressed:


Thank you :-).

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Ahmad

  			return -ENOMEM;
-		fdt->str_size *= 2;
+		}
+
+		fdt->str_size = new_size;
  	}
if (fdt->dt_size - fdt->dt_nextofs < 1024 + dtsize) {
-		fdt->dt = memalign_realloc(fdt->dt, fdt->dt_size,
-				fdt->dt_size * 2);
-		if (!fdt->dt)
+		previous = fdt->dt;
+		new_size = fdt->dt_size * 2;
+
+		if ((fdt->dt = memalign_realloc(previous, fdt->dt_size,
+						new_size)) == NULL) {
+			free(previous);
  			return -ENOMEM;
-		fdt->dt_size *= 2;
+		}
+
+		fdt->dt_size = new_size;
  	}
return 0;



Cheers
Stefan

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