[PATCH v2] mtd: parsers: qcom: Fix leaking of partition name

Ansuel Smith ansuelsmth at gmail.com
Tue May 25 16:09:31 PDT 2021


Add cleanup function as the name variable for the partition name was
allocaed but never freed after the use as the add mtd function
duplicate the name and free the pparts struct as the partition name is
assumed to be static.
The leak was found using kmemleak.

Fixes: 803eb124e1a6 ("mtd: parsers: Add Qcom SMEM parser")
Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/parsers/qcomsmempart.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/qcomsmempart.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/qcomsmempart.c
index d9083308f6ba..06a818cd2433 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/qcomsmempart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/qcomsmempart.c
@@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ static int parse_qcomsmem_part(struct mtd_info *mtd,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static void parse_qcomsmem_cleanup(const struct mtd_partition *pparts,
+				   int nr_parts)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_parts; i++)
+		kfree(pparts[i].name);
+}
+
 static const struct of_device_id qcomsmem_of_match_table[] = {
 	{ .compatible = "qcom,smem-part" },
 	{},
@@ -167,6 +176,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, qcomsmem_of_match_table);
 
 static struct mtd_part_parser mtd_parser_qcomsmem = {
 	.parse_fn = parse_qcomsmem_part,
+	.cleanup = parse_qcomsmem_cleanup,
 	.name = "qcomsmem",
 	.of_match_table = qcomsmem_of_match_table,
 };
-- 
2.31.1




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