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* [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: Fix a memory leak in 'sunxi_pinctrl_build_state()'
@ 2018-10-16  6:22 Christophe JAILLET
  2018-10-16  6:59 ` Maxime Ripard
  2018-10-16  8:04 ` Linus Walleij
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christophe JAILLET @ 2018-10-16  6:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maxime.ripard, wens, linus.walleij
  Cc: linux-arm-kernel, linux-gpio, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors,
	Christophe JAILLET

If 'krealloc()' fails, 'pctl->functions' is set to NULL.
We should instead use a temp variable in order to be able to free the
previously allocated memeory, in case of OOM.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
index 4d9bf9b3e9f3..a895c70def68 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
@@ -1042,6 +1042,7 @@ static int sunxi_pinctrl_add_function(struct sunxi_pinctrl *pctl,
 static int sunxi_pinctrl_build_state(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct sunxi_pinctrl *pctl = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+	void *ptr;
 	int i;
 
 	/*
@@ -1109,13 +1110,15 @@ static int sunxi_pinctrl_build_state(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	/* And now allocated and fill the array for real */
-	pctl->functions = krealloc(pctl->functions,
-				   pctl->nfunctions * sizeof(*pctl->functions),
-				   GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!pctl->functions) {
+	ptr = krealloc(pctl->functions,
+		       pctl->nfunctions * sizeof(*pctl->functions),
+		       GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ptr) {
 		kfree(pctl->functions);
+		pctl->functions = NULL;
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
+	pctl->functions = ptr;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < pctl->desc->npins; i++) {
 		const struct sunxi_desc_pin *pin = pctl->desc->pins + i;
-- 
2.17.1


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* Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: Fix a memory leak in 'sunxi_pinctrl_build_state()'
  2018-10-16  6:22 [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: Fix a memory leak in 'sunxi_pinctrl_build_state()' Christophe JAILLET
@ 2018-10-16  6:59 ` Maxime Ripard
  2018-10-16  8:04 ` Linus Walleij
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maxime Ripard @ 2018-10-16  6:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christophe JAILLET
  Cc: wens, linus.walleij, linux-arm-kernel, linux-gpio, linux-kernel,
	kernel-janitors

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:22:28AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> If 'krealloc()' fails, 'pctl->functions' is set to NULL.
> We should instead use a temp variable in order to be able to free the
> previously allocated memeory, in case of OOM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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* Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: Fix a memory leak in 'sunxi_pinctrl_build_state()'
  2018-10-16  6:22 [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: Fix a memory leak in 'sunxi_pinctrl_build_state()' Christophe JAILLET
  2018-10-16  6:59 ` Maxime Ripard
@ 2018-10-16  8:04 ` Linus Walleij
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Linus Walleij @ 2018-10-16  8:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christophe Jaillet
  Cc: Maxime Ripard, Chen-Yu Tsai, Linux ARM, open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM,
	linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:22 AM Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> If 'krealloc()' fails, 'pctl->functions' is set to NULL.
> We should instead use a temp variable in order to be able to free the
> previously allocated memeory, in case of OOM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

Patch applied with Maxime's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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