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ARM: dma-mapping: Fix potential memory leak in atomic_pool_init()

Message ID 1347858583-13338-1-git-send-email-sachin.kamat@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Sachin Kamat Sept. 17, 2012, 5:09 a.m. UTC
When either of __alloc_from_contiguous or __alloc_remap_buffer fails
to provide a valid pointer, allocated memory is freed up and an error
is returned. 'pages' was however not freed before returning error.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Marek Szyprowski Sept. 24, 2012, 7:05 a.m. UTC | #1
Hello,

On Monday, September 17, 2012 7:10 AM Sachin Kamat wrote:

> When either of __alloc_from_contiguous or __alloc_remap_buffer fails
> to provide a valid pointer, allocated memory is freed up and an error
> is returned. 'pages' was however not freed before returning error.
> 
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 546a3e8..477a2d2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
>  		       (unsigned)pool->size / 1024);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> +
> +	kfree(pages);
>  no_pages:
>  	kfree(bitmap);
>  no_bitmap:
> --
> 1.7.4.1

Applied to my fixes-for-3.6 branch. Thanks for spotting this issue!

Best regards
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diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index 546a3e8..477a2d2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -367,6 +367,8 @@  static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
 		       (unsigned)pool->size / 1024);
 		return 0;
 	}
+
+	kfree(pages);
 no_pages:
 	kfree(bitmap);
 no_bitmap: