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SubjectRe: [PATCH] target: Fix memory leak in fd_set_configfs_dev_params().
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On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 20:17 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> match_strdup() dynamically allocates memory and it is the responsabillity
> of the caller to free that memory. In
> drivers/target/target_core_file.c::fd_set_configfs_dev_params() two calls
> are made to match_strdup() and in neither case is the allocated memory
> freed, but instead it is leaked.
>
> This patch should take care of the problem by kfree()'ing the allocated
> memory once it is no longer needed. It also makes sure to return -ENOMEM
> if the memory allocation in match_strdup() should fail.
>
> Please review and consider for inclusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

Ugh, this was my fault during the recent v4.0 configfs parameter
conversion. Committed as 5c45b37 in lio-core-2.6.git/linus-38-rc1 and I
will fix up the other handful of match_strdup() breakage and carry into
scsi-post-merge-2.6.git/for-jejb shortly.

Thanks for catching this..

--nab

> ---
> target_core_file.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> compile tested only.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c
> index 0aaca88..676a010 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c
> @@ -537,15 +537,26 @@ static ssize_t fd_set_configfs_dev_params(
> token = match_token(ptr, tokens, args);
> switch (token) {
> case Opt_fd_dev_name:
> + arg_p = match_strdup(&args[0]);
> + if (!arg_p) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + break;
> + }
> snprintf(fd_dev->fd_dev_name, FD_MAX_DEV_NAME,
> - "%s", match_strdup(&args[0]));
> + "%s", arg_p);
> + kfree(arg_p);
> printk(KERN_INFO "FILEIO: Referencing Path: %s\n",
> fd_dev->fd_dev_name);
> fd_dev->fbd_flags |= FBDF_HAS_PATH;
> break;
> case Opt_fd_dev_size:
> arg_p = match_strdup(&args[0]);
> + if (!arg_p) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + break;
> + }
> ret = strict_strtoull(arg_p, 0, &fd_dev->fd_dev_size);
> + kfree(arg_p);
> if (ret < 0) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "strict_strtoull() failed for"
> " fd_dev_size=\n");
>
>



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