[PATCH -next] um: vector: Fix memory leak in vector_config

Xiang Yang xiangyang3 at huawei.com
Mon Nov 14 23:32:25 PST 2022


If the return value of the uml_parse_vector_ifspec function is NULL,
we should call kfree(params) to prevent memory leak.

Fixes: 49da7e64f33e ("High Performance UML Vector Network Driver")
Signed-off-by: Xiang Yang <xiangyang3 at huawei.com>
---
 arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
index ded7c47d2fbe..131b7cb29576 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
@@ -767,6 +767,7 @@ static int vector_config(char *str, char **error_out)
 
 	if (parsed == NULL) {
 		*error_out = "vector_config failed to parse parameters";
+		kfree(params);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.22.0




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