[dm-devel] [PATCH] drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c::target_message(): don't leak 'argv' mem

Jesper Juhl jj at chaosbits.net
Sun Jan 15 19:36:46 UTC 2012


If, after allocating memory for 'argv' via dm_split_args(...), we take
the true branch of 'if (!argc)', we'll jump to the 'out:' label and
neglect to free the memory we allocated. We should instead jump to the
'out_argv:' label in that case as far as I can tell.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>
---
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

 Compile tested only.

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index 31c2dc2..1ce84ed 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ static int target_message(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size)
 
 	if (!argc) {
 		DMWARN("Empty message received.");
-		goto out;
+		goto out_argv;
 	}
 
 	table = dm_get_live_table(md);
-- 
1.7.8.3


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