iio/adjd_s311: Fix potential memory leak in adjd_s311_update_scan_mode()
authorAlexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:58:00 +0000 (10:58 +0100)
committerJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:24:33 +0000 (20:24 +0100)
Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value.
There is no need to preserve data in the buffer,
so replace krealloc() by kfree()-kmalloc() pair.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Acked-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c

index 1cbb449b319a8e9399af3b427342fb1702b1b173..9a99f43094f0824dde61203647462a8872faab83 100644 (file)
@@ -271,9 +271,10 @@ static int adjd_s311_update_scan_mode(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
        const unsigned long *scan_mask)
 {
        struct adjd_s311_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
-       data->buffer = krealloc(data->buffer, indio_dev->scan_bytes,
-                               GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!data->buffer)
+
+       kfree(data->buffer);
+       data->buffer = kmalloc(indio_dev->scan_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (data->buffer == NULL)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
        return 0;