Hi Miaoqian,
On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 8:53 AM Miaoqian Lin <linmq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> kstrdup() return newly allocated copy of the string.
> Call kfree() to release the memory when after use.
>
> Fixes: 49da7e64f33e ("High Performance UML Vector Network Driver")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq...@gmail.com>
Thanks for your patch!
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
> @@ -765,6 +765,7 @@ static int vector_config(char *str, char **error_out)
>
> parsed = uml_parse_vector_ifspec(params);
>
> + kfree(params);
Are you sure the memory pointed to by "params" is no longer used?
"parsed" seems to contain pointers pointing to (parts of) the string
pointed to by "params", so it cannot be freed.
> if (parsed == NULL) {
> *error_out = "vector_config failed to parse parameters";
> return -EINVAL;
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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