Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758211AbaGOJFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:05:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f172.google.com ([209.85.214.172]:52936 "EHLO mail-ob0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752738AbaGOJFh (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:05:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140715065116.GS25880@mwanda> References: <20140715030456.GA14420@devel.8.8.4.4> <20140715065116.GS25880@mwanda> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:05:35 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] staging: dgap: fix memory leak in dgap_parsefile() From: DaeSeok Youn To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Lidza Louina , devel , Greg KH , driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2014-07-15 15:51 GMT+09:00 Dan Carpenter : > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:05:14PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote: >> The p->u.board.status is allocated and set a string as >> "No" once within allocating a node of BNODE type. >> But it also set again with kstrdup() in case of "STATUS" >> or "ID". If it is not allocated yet, use kstrdup(). >> If not, use just memcpy(). > > I don't think a 2 char buffer is always large enough to hold the new > strings. > > Just free it and allocate again. Yes, I will send this again. Thanks. regards, Daeseok Youn. > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/