[PATCH 5/8] bootstrap_read_devfs(): Fix potential memory leak

Andrey Smirnov andrew.smirnov at gmail.com
Sun May 3 13:13:16 PDT 2015


In case of a failure in one of the cdev_* functions original version
of bootstrap_read_devfs would not release memory allocated for barebox
header or memory allocated for the image. This commit fixes this by
adding resource deallocation code.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov at gmail.com>
---
 lib/bootstrap/devfs.c | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c b/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c
index 4176819..f7f91d6 100644
--- a/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c
+++ b/lib/bootstrap/devfs.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ void* bootstrap_read_devfs(char *devname, bool use_bb, int offset,
 {
 	int ret;
 	int size = 0;
-	void *to, *header;
+	void *to, *header, *result = NULL;
 	struct cdev *cdev, partition;
 	char *partname = "x";

@@ -116,16 +116,21 @@ void* bootstrap_read_devfs(char *devname, bool use_bb, int offset,
 	cdev = cdev_open(partname, O_RDONLY);
 	if (!cdev) {
 		bootstrap_err("%s: failed to open %s\n", devname, partname);
-		return NULL;
+		goto free_memory;
 	}

 	ret = cdev_read(cdev, to, size, 0, 0);
 	cdev_close(cdev);

-	if (ret != size) {
+	if (ret != size)
 		bootstrap_err("%s: failed to read from %s\n", devname, partname);
-		return NULL;
-	}
+	else
+		result = to;
+
+free_memory:
+	free(header);
+	if (!result)
+		free(to);

-	return to;
+	return result;
 }
--
2.1.4



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