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* [PATCH] kdb: fix possible memory leak in kdb_defcmd2()
@ 2012-09-02 13:29 Wei Yongjun
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From: Wei Yongjun @ 2012-09-02 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jason.wessel; +Cc: yongjun_wei, kgdb-bugreport, linux-kernel

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

In the error handling case of kdb_defcmd2() s->command has
been set to NULL but the save_command remain no free, this will
cause memory leak.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
---
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
index 31df170..0cbe79f 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -651,6 +651,7 @@ static int kdb_defcmd2(const char *cmdstr, const char *argv0)
 		kdb_printf("Could not allocate new kdb_defcmd table for %s\n",
 			   cmdstr);
 		s->usable = 0;
+		kfree(save_command);
 		return KDB_NOTIMP;
 	}
 	memcpy(s->command, save_command, s->count * sizeof(*(s->command)));



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