[PATCH v2] soc: mediatek: svs: Fix memory leak in svs_enable_debug_write()
Zilin Guan
zilin at seu.edu.cn
Sun Dec 28 08:26:36 PST 2025
In svs_enable_debug_write(), the buf allocated by memdup_user_nul()
is leaked if kstrtoint() fails.
Fix this by using __free(kfree) to automatically free buf, eliminating
the need for explicit kfree() calls and preventing leaks.
Fixes: 13f1bbcfb582 ("soc: mediatek: SVS: add debug commands")
Co-developed-by: Jianhao Xu <jianhao.xu at seu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jianhao Xu <jianhao.xu at seu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin at seu.edu.cn>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use __free(kfree) to simplify memory management.
---
drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-svs.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-svs.c b/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-svs.c
index f45537546553..5ede59299613 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-svs.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-svs.c
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ static ssize_t svs_enable_debug_write(struct file *filp,
struct svs_bank *svsb = file_inode(filp)->i_private;
struct svs_platform *svsp = dev_get_drvdata(svsb->dev);
int enabled, ret;
- char *buf = NULL;
+ char *buf __free(kfree) = NULL;
if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -807,8 +807,6 @@ static ssize_t svs_enable_debug_write(struct file *filp,
svsb->mode_support = SVSB_MODE_ALL_DISABLE;
}
- kfree(buf);
-
return count;
}
--
2.34.1
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