mtd: phram: fix a double free issue in error path
authorWen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:31:56 +0000 (23:31 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:59:15 +0000 (07:59 +0200)
commit 49c64df880570034308e4a9a49c4bc95cf8cdb33 upstream.

The variable 'name' is released multiple times in the error path,
which may cause double free issues.
This problem is avoided by adding a goto label to release the memory
uniformly. And this change also makes the code a bit more cleaner.

Fixes: 4f678a58d335 ("mtd: fix memory leaks in phram_setup")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200318153156.25612-1-wenyang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c

index 8b66e52ca3ccb811e818dce496ca6e0fcc7c9ecb..9734e6903fe6f165b3df75dcd0688fc15e0b3e53 100644 (file)
@@ -247,22 +247,25 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val)
 
        ret = parse_num64(&start, token[1]);
        if (ret) {
-               kfree(name);
                parse_err("illegal start address\n");
+               goto error;
        }
 
        ret = parse_num64(&len, token[2]);
        if (ret) {
-               kfree(name);
                parse_err("illegal device length\n");
+               goto error;
        }
 
        ret = register_device(name, start, len);
-       if (!ret)
-               pr_info("%s device: %#llx at %#llx\n", name, len, start);
-       else
-               kfree(name);
+       if (ret)
+               goto error;
+
+       pr_info("%s device: %#llx at %#llx\n", name, len, start);
+       return 0;
 
+error:
+       kfree(name);
        return ret;
 }