lkdtm: fix memory leak of val

This case is supposed to read from a page after after it is freed, but
it missed freeing val if we are not able to get a free page.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index 5f1a36b8fbb082af1d0251504e19a33e1dc8c621..2f0b0224876111104ef62936403efd6f59e40052 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -498,12 +498,13 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
        }
        case CT_READ_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE: {
                unsigned long p = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-               int saw, *val = kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
+               int saw, *val;
                int *base;
 
                if (!p)
                        break;
 
+               val = kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!val)
                        break;