Hello.

On 9/30/2016 3:11 PM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:

The call to krealloc() in wsm_buf_reserve() directly assigns the newly
returned memory to buf->begin. This is all fine except when krealloc()
failes we loose the ability to free the old memory pointed to by

   Fails.

buf->begin. If we just create a temporary variable to assign memory to
and assign the memory to it we can mitigate the memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumsh...@suse.de>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
index 680d60e..12fad99 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
@@ -1807,16 +1807,18 @@ static int wsm_buf_reserve(struct wsm_buf *buf, size_t 
extra_size)
 {
        size_t pos = buf->data - buf->begin;
        size_t size = pos + extra_size;
+       u8 *tmp;

        size = round_up(size, FWLOAD_BLOCK_SIZE);

-       buf->begin = krealloc(buf->begin, size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
-       if (buf->begin) {
-               buf->data = &buf->begin[pos];
-               buf->end = &buf->begin[size];
-               return 0;
-       } else {
-               buf->end = buf->data = buf->begin;
+       tmp = krealloc(buf->begin, size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
+       if (tmp) {

   !tmp, you mean?

+               wsm_buf_deinit(buf);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
+
+       buf->begin = tmp;
+       buf->data = &buf->begin[pos];
+       buf->end = &buf->begin[size];
+       return 0;
 }

MBR, Sergei

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