[PATCH v2 5/8] bootstrap_read_devfs(): Fix potential memory leak
Andrey Smirnov
andrew.smirnov at gmail.com
Sun May 3 14:55:24 PDT 2015
In case of a failure in one of the cdev_* functions original version
of bootstrap_read_devfs would not release memory allocated for barebox
header or memory allocated for the image. This commit fixes this by
adding resource deallocation code.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov at gmail.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- Fix a compile time error that snuck in during the time the diff was
being split into multiple patches
lib/bootstrap/devfs.c | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c b/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c
index 3c4276f..05a6346 100644
--- a/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c
+++ b/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ void* bootstrap_read_devfs(char *devname, bool use_bb, int offset,
{
int ret;
int size = 0;
- void *to, *header;
+ void *to, *header, *result = NULL;
struct cdev *cdev, *partition;
char *partname = "x";
@@ -116,16 +116,21 @@ void* bootstrap_read_devfs(char *devname, bool use_bb, int offset,
cdev = cdev_open(partname, O_RDONLY);
if (!cdev) {
bootstrap_err("%s: failed to open %s\n", devname, partname);
- return NULL;
+ goto free_memory;
}
ret = cdev_read(cdev, to, size, 0, 0);
cdev_close(cdev);
- if (ret != size) {
+ if (ret != size)
bootstrap_err("%s: failed to read from %s\n", devname, partname);
- return NULL;
- }
+ else
+ result = to;
+
+free_memory:
+ free(header);
+ if (!result)
+ free(to);
- return to;
+ return result;
}
--
2.1.4
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