From: Wenwen Wang <wen...@cs.uga.edu>
In test_firmware_init(), the buffer pointed to by the global pointer
'test_fw_config' is allocated through kzalloc(). Then, the buffer is
initialized in __test_firmware_config_init(). In the case that the
initialization fails, the following execution in test_firmware_init() needs
to be terminated with an error code returned to indicate this failure.
However, the allocated buffer is not freed on this execution path, leading
to a memory leak bug.
To fix the above issue, free the allocated buffer before returning from
test_firmware_init().
Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wen...@cs.uga.edu>
---
lib/test_firmware.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/test_firmware.c b/lib/test_firmware.c
index 83ea6c4..6ca97a6 100644
--- a/lib/test_firmware.c
+++ b/lib/test_firmware.c
@@ -886,8 +886,11 @@ static int __init test_firmware_init(void)
return -ENOMEM;
rc = __test_firmware_config_init();
- if (rc)
+ if (rc) {
+ kfree(test_fw_config);
+ pr_err("could not init firmware test config: %d\n", rc);
return rc;
+ }
rc = misc_register(&test_fw_misc_device);
if (rc) {
--
2.7.4
