hwmon (coretemp) Fix a memory leak bug
authorWenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:00:02 +0000 (16:00 -0500)
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:04:57 +0000 (08:04 -0700)
In coretemp_init(), 'zone_devices' is allocated through kcalloc().
However, it is not deallocated in the following execution if
platform_driver_register() fails, leading to a memory leak. To fix this
issue, introduce the 'outzone' label to free 'zone_devices' before
returning the error.

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1566248402-6538-1-git-send-email-wenwen@cs.uga.edu
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c

index fe6618e..d855c78 100644 (file)
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void)
 
        err = platform_driver_register(&coretemp_driver);
        if (err)
-               return err;
+               goto outzone;
 
        err = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "hwmon/coretemp:online",
                                coretemp_cpu_online, coretemp_cpu_offline);
@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void)
 
 outdrv:
        platform_driver_unregister(&coretemp_driver);
+outzone:
        kfree(zone_devices);
        return err;
 }