Commit d5ce5b40 authored Jul 08, 2009 by Catalin Marinas Committed by Linus Torvalds Jul 08, 2009

Free the memory allocated by memdup_user() in fs/sysfs/bin.c



Commit 1c8542c7 replaced kmalloc() with memdup_user() in the write()
function but also dropped the kfree(temp). The memdup_user() function
allocates memory which is never freed.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 5e75c5f5

fs/sysfs/bin.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file file, const char __user userbuf,
		if (count > 0)
		*off = offs + count;

		kfree(temp);
		return count;
		}