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Subject[PATCH] Free the memory allocated by memdup_user() in fs/sysfs/bin.c
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Commit 1c8542c7bb replaced kmalloc() with memdup_user() in the write()
function but also dropped the kfree(temp). The memdup_user() function
allocates memory which is never freed.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
---
fs/sysfs/bin.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
index 9345806..2524714 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
if (count > 0)
*off = offs + count;

+ kfree(temp);
return count;
}



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