[PATCH v12 3/4] arm64: Free DTB buffer if fdt_open_into() fails
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
nramas at linux.microsoft.com
Thu Dec 17 13:30:29 EST 2020
On 12/17/20 9:37 AM, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
> create_dtb() function allocates memory for the device tree blob (DTB)
> and calls fdt_open_into(). If this call fails the memory allocated
> for the DTB is not freed before returning from create_dtb() thereby
> leaking memory.
Typo in the email address of James Morse (ARM.com). Sorry about that.
Adding the correct email address.
-lakshmi
>
> Call vfree() to free the memory allocated for the DTB if fdt_open_into()
> fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> index 7de9c47dee7c..3e045cd62451 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> @@ -65,8 +65,10 @@ static int create_dtb(struct kimage *image,
>
> /* duplicate a device tree blob */
> ret = fdt_open_into(initial_boot_params, buf, buf_size);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + vfree(buf);
> return -EINVAL;
> + }
>
> ret = of_kexec_setup_new_fdt(image, buf, initrd_load_addr,
> initrd_len, cmdline);
>
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