From: Darren Jenkins Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:47:50 +0000 (-0700) Subject: drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c fix small resource leak X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26~16 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4fc89e3911aa5357b55b85b60c4beaeb8a48a290;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c fix small resource leak Coverity CID: 1356 RESOURCE_LEAK I found a very old patch for this that was Acked but did not get applied https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2006-September/016362.html There looks to be a small leak in isdn_writebuf_stub() in isdn_common.c, when copy_from_user() returns an un-copied data length (length != 0). The below patch should be a minimally invasive fix. Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins Acked-by: Karsten Keil Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c index 0f3c66de69b..8d8c6b73616 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c @@ -1977,8 +1977,10 @@ isdn_writebuf_stub(int drvidx, int chan, const u_char __user * buf, int len) if (!skb) return -ENOMEM; skb_reserve(skb, hl); - if (copy_from_user(skb_put(skb, len), buf, len)) + if (copy_from_user(skb_put(skb, len), buf, len)) { + dev_kfree_skb(skb); return -EFAULT; + } ret = dev->drv[drvidx]->interface->writebuf_skb(drvidx, chan, 1, skb); if (ret <= 0) dev_kfree_skb(skb);