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SubjectRE: [PATCH] staging/hv: Fix memory leak of storvsc_dev_add()
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Bartke [mailto:andre.bartke@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:32 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Andre Bartke; gregkh@suse.de; devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; Haiyang Zhang;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/hv: Fix memory leak of storvsc_dev_add()
>
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:28:40 +0000
> KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org [mailto:devel-
> > > bounces@linuxdriverproject.org] On Behalf Of Andre Bartke
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:46 PM
> > > To: gregkh@suse.de
> > > Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; Andre Bartke; Haiyang Zhang; linux-
> > > kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > > Subject: [PATCH] staging/hv: Fix memory leak of storvsc_dev_add()
> > >
> > > stor_device is not freed in storvsc_dev_add()
> > > causing a memory leak in case of an allocation error.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andre Bartke <andre.bartke@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c | 1 +
> > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> > > b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c index 06cd327..92b44f4 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> > > @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ int storvsc_dev_add(struct hv_device *device,
> > > device_info->target_id = stor_device->target_id;
> > >
> > > cleanup:
> > > + free_stor_device(stor_device);
> > > return ret;
> >
> > Was this patch tested? Even the normal path falls through the cleanup
> > label and obviously you should not be freeing the stor_device in that
> > case. I have patches queued up to cleanup some of the unnecessary
> > labels and meaningless return values that I will be sending soon.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > K. Y
> >
> >
> >
>
> Right, I really messed up there, here is how it was supposed to be
>
> From 5fe8c601bae555b03257d0e7ea57e42a99c5e634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andre Bartke <andre.bartke@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:18:58 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] staging/hv: Fix memory leak of storvsc_dev_add()
>
> stor_device is not freed in storvsc_dev_add()
> causing a memory leak in case of an allocation error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Bartke <andre.bartke@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> index 06cd327..3d77c82 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> @@ -392,10 +392,8 @@ int storvsc_dev_add(struct hv_device *device,
>
> device_info = (struct storvsc_device_info *)additional_info;
> stor_device = alloc_stor_device(device);
> - if (!stor_device) {
> - ret = -1;
> - goto cleanup;
> - }
> + if (!stor_device)
> + goto err;
>
> /* Save the channel properties to our storvsc channel */
>
> @@ -413,6 +411,12 @@ int storvsc_dev_add(struct hv_device *device,
> device_info->path_id = stor_device->path_id;
> device_info->target_id = stor_device->target_id;
>
> + goto cleanup;
> +
> +err:
> + ret = -1;
> + free_stor_device(stor_device);
> +
> cleanup:
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 1.7.5.2
>
This could be cleaned up much better; we don't need to additional labels. As I said,
earlier, I have patches queued up for this and a whole lot more. I will add your name to
the patch that fixes this issue.

Regards,

K. Y


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