nbd: fix possible memory leak
authorSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:38:22 +0000 (18:08 +0530)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:58:28 +0000 (14:58 -0400)
[ Upstream commit ff6b8090e26ef7649ef0cc6b42389141ef48b0cf ]

we have already allocated memory for nbd_dev, but we were not
releasing that memory and just returning the error value.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
drivers/block/nbd.c

index 4bc2a5c..a98c41f 100644 (file)
@@ -803,10 +803,6 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
                return -EINVAL;
        }
 
-       nbd_dev = kcalloc(nbds_max, sizeof(*nbd_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!nbd_dev)
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
        part_shift = 0;
        if (max_part > 0) {
                part_shift = fls(max_part);
@@ -828,6 +824,10 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
        if (nbds_max > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift))
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       nbd_dev = kcalloc(nbds_max, sizeof(*nbd_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!nbd_dev)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        for (i = 0; i < nbds_max; i++) {
                struct gendisk *disk = alloc_disk(1 << part_shift);
                if (!disk)