[PATCH] blspec: fix memory leak handling NFS URLs

Sascha Hauer sha at pengutronix.de
Tue Sep 13 01:16:17 PDT 2022


On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 09:02:47AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> parse_nfs_url() returns either an allocated string on success or an
> error pointer otherwise. blspec_bootentry_provider() will early
> exit if the path couldn't be resolved and thus not free() the string.
> 
> Fix this memory leak. While at it, change parse_nfs_url() to return NULL
> on error. The error code is unused and just returning NULL, simplifies
> the code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  common/blspec.c | 14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/common/blspec.c b/common/blspec.c
> index 9bb25ee72123..d391f690ad0c 100644
> --- a/common/blspec.c
> +++ b/common/blspec.c
> @@ -341,10 +341,10 @@ static char *parse_nfs_url(const char *url)
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_NFS))
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
> +		return NULL;
>  
>  	if (strncmp(url, "nfs://", 6))
> -		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +		return NULL;
>  
>  	url += 6;
>  
> @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ out:
>  	if (ret)
>  		free(mountpath);
>  
> -	return ret ? ERR_PTR(ret) : mountpath;
> +	return ret ? NULL : mountpath;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -824,12 +824,12 @@ static int blspec_bootentry_provider(struct bootentries *bootentries,
>  	if (*name == '/' || !strncmp(name, "nfs://", 6)) {
>  		char *nfspath = parse_nfs_url(name);
>  
> -		if (!IS_ERR(nfspath))
> +		if (nfspath)
>  			name = nfspath;
>  
>  		ret = stat(name, &s);
>  		if (ret)
> -			return found;
> +			goto out;
>  
>  		if (S_ISDIR(s.st_mode))
>  			ret = blspec_scan_directory(bootentries, name);
> @@ -838,8 +838,8 @@ static int blspec_bootentry_provider(struct bootentries *bootentries,
>  		if (ret > 0)
>  			found += ret;
>  
> -		if (!IS_ERR(nfspath))
> -			free(nfspath);
> +out:
> +		free(nfspath);
>  	}
>  
>  	return found;
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 
> 
> 

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