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Date:   Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:39:49 +1030
From:   "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>
To:     "Christophe JAILLET" <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>,
        "Corey Minyard" <minyard@acm.org>, "Zev Weiss" <zweiss@equinix.com>
Cc:     openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: kcs_bmc: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of
 'kcs_bmc_serio_add_device()'
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, at 06:36, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> In the unlikely event where 'devm_kzalloc()' fails and 'kzalloc()'
> succeeds, 'port' would be leaking.
>
> Test each allocation separately to avoid the leak.
>
> Fixes: 3a3d2f6a4c64 ("ipmi: kcs_bmc: Add serio adaptor")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>

Sorry for the delay

> ---
>  drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc_serio.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc_serio.c 
> b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc_serio.c
> index 7948cabde50b..7e2067628a6c 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc_serio.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc_serio.c
> @@ -73,10 +73,12 @@ static int kcs_bmc_serio_add_device(struct 
> kcs_bmc_device *kcs_bmc)
>  	struct serio *port;
> 
>  	priv = devm_kzalloc(kcs_bmc->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!priv)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> 
>  	/* Use kzalloc() as the allocation is cleaned up with kfree() via 
> serio_unregister_port() */
>  	port = kzalloc(sizeof(*port), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!(priv && port))
> +	if (!port)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> 
>  	port->id.type = SERIO_8042;
> -- 
> 2.30.2