From: Kuan-Wei Chiu Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:26:33 +0000 (+0800) Subject: efi: fix memory leak in krealloc failure handling X-Git-Tag: v6.1.63~430 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e1a6594d78283ff4a029f03d14eb645284a45af;p=sdk%2Femulator%2Femulator-kernel.git efi: fix memory leak in krealloc failure handling [ Upstream commit 0d3ad1917996839a5042d18f04e41915cfa1b74a ] In the previous code, there was a memory leak issue where the previously allocated memory was not freed upon a failed krealloc operation. This patch addresses the problem by releasing the old memory before setting the pointer to NULL in case of a krealloc failure. This ensures that memory is properly managed and avoids potential memory leaks. Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c index b43e5e6ddaf6..b7c0e8cc0764 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c @@ -245,9 +245,13 @@ static __init int efivar_ssdt_load(void) if (status == EFI_NOT_FOUND) { break; } else if (status == EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL) { - name = krealloc(name, name_size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!name) + efi_char16_t *name_tmp = + krealloc(name, name_size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!name_tmp) { + kfree(name); return -ENOMEM; + } + name = name_tmp; continue; }