From: Alexey Khoroshilov Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:58:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: iio/adjd_s311: Fix potential memory leak in adjd_s311_update_scan_mode() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c795ebd00042b3a5c97e049fd1c08763714a7a8;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git iio/adjd_s311: Fix potential memory leak in adjd_s311_update_scan_mode() 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 Acked-by: Peter Meerwald Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron --- diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c b/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c index 1cbb449b319a..9a99f43094f0 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/adjd_s311.c @@ -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;