2007-05-16 23:35:48

by Florin Malita

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Subject: [PATCH] spi: potential memleak in spidev_ioctl

'ioc' should be deallocated if __copy_from_user fails (found by Coverity
- CID 1644).

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <[email protected]>
---

spidev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
index c0a6dce..2464f34 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ spidev_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
break;
}
if (__copy_from_user(ioc, (void __user *)arg, tmp)) {
+ kfree(ioc);
retval = -EFAULT;
break;
}