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Subject[PATCH] ubifs: fix a memory leak bug
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In __ubifs_node_verify_hmac(), 'hmac' is allocated through kmalloc().
However, it is not deallocated in the following execution if
ubifs_node_calc_hmac() fails, leading to a memory leak bug. To fix this
issue, free 'hmac' before returning the error.

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
---
fs/ubifs/auth.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/auth.c b/fs/ubifs/auth.c
index d9af2de..8cdbd53 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/auth.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/auth.c
@@ -479,8 +479,10 @@ int __ubifs_node_verify_hmac(const struct ubifs_info *c, const void *node,
return -ENOMEM;

err = ubifs_node_calc_hmac(c, node, len, ofs_hmac, hmac);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ kfree(hmac);
return err;
+ }

err = crypto_memneq(hmac, node + ofs_hmac, hmac_len);

--
2.7.4
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