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authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>2010-08-27 19:31:56 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-08-27 19:31:56 -0700
commitc34186ed008229e7f7e3f1de8e6acf6374995358 (patch)
treeb8d24a6503fc847d7dd1fa55b73aa9ca45781730 /net
parent7e368739e3b3f1d7944794c178a15f05829b56bc (diff)
downloadlinux-c34186ed008229e7f7e3f1de8e6acf6374995358.tar.bz2
net/ipv4: Eliminate kstrdup memory leak
The string clone is only used as a temporary copy of the argument val within the while loop, and so it should be freed before leaving the function. The call to strsep, however, modifies clone, so a pointer to the front of the string is kept in saved_clone, to make it possible to free it. The sematic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; expression E; identifier l; statement S; @@ *x= \(kasprintf\|kstrdup\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S ... when != kfree(x) when != E = x if (...) { <... when != kfree(x) * goto l; ...> * return ...; } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
index 0ec9bd0ae94f..850c737e08e2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -196,10 +196,10 @@ void tcp_get_allowed_congestion_control(char *buf, size_t maxlen)
int tcp_set_allowed_congestion_control(char *val)
{
struct tcp_congestion_ops *ca;
- char *clone, *name;
+ char *saved_clone, *clone, *name;
int ret = 0;
- clone = kstrdup(val, GFP_USER);
+ saved_clone = clone = kstrdup(val, GFP_USER);
if (!clone)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int tcp_set_allowed_congestion_control(char *val)
}
out:
spin_unlock(&tcp_cong_list_lock);
+ kfree(saved_clone);
return ret;
}