[PATCH] relay: fix potential memory leak

* [PATCH] relay: fix potential memory leak
@ 2016-06-01 10:45 Zhouyi Zhou
  2016-06-01 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Zhouyi Zhou @ 2016-06-01 10:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, penberg, viro, linux-kernel; +Cc: Zhouyi Zhou, Zhouyi Zhou

when relay_open_buf fails in relay_open, program will goto free_bufs,
but chan is nowhere freed.

In addition, give warning to users who forget to provide create file
hook. 	 

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/relay.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
index 074994b..e0990c7 100644
--- a/kernel/relay.c
+++ b/kernel/relay.c
@@ -589,6 +589,13 @@ struct rchan *relay_open(const char *base_filename,
 	chan->parent = parent;
 	chan->private_data = private_data;
 	if (base_filename) {
+		if (!cb || !cb->create_buf_file) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR
+			       "relay_open: has base filename without "
+			       "providing hook to create file\n");
+			kfree(chan);
+			return NULL;
+		}
 		chan->has_base_filename = 1;
 		strlcpy(chan->base_filename, base_filename, NAME_MAX);
 	}
@@ -614,6 +621,7 @@ free_bufs:
 
 	kref_put(&chan->kref, relay_destroy_channel);
 	mutex_unlock(&relay_channels_mutex);
+	kfree(chan);
 	return NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(relay_open);
-- 
1.9.1

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