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Free the memory allocated by memdup_user() in fs/sysfs/bin.c
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:17:34 +0000 (11:17 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:34:07 +0000 (09:34 -0700)
Commit 1c8542c7bb replaced kmalloc() with memdup_user() in the write()
function but also dropped the kfree(temp). The memdup_user() function
allocates memory which is never freed.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/sysfs/bin.c

index 9345806c8853e369ba34695542081bb2e3f347db..2524714bece1b87e68d68c6928cfd720f0a9b259 100644 (file)
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
        if (count > 0)
                *off = offs + count;
 
+       kfree(temp);
        return count;
 }