Memleak in Windows Logical Disk Manager partition handler

Oleg Drokin (green@linuxhacker.ru)
Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:41:25 +0300


Hello!

Not freeing allocated memory on error exit path.
See the patch.
Should apply to both 2.4 and 2.5.
Found with help of smatch + enhanced unfree script.

Bye,
Oleg

===== fs/partitions/ldm.c 1.6 vs edited =====
--- 1.6/fs/partitions/ldm.c Mon Aug 12 00:08:42 2002
+++ edited/fs/partitions/ldm.c Sun Mar 9 23:38:15 2003
@@ -1223,8 +1223,10 @@
return FALSE;
}

- if (!ldm_parse_vblk (data, len, vb))
+ if (!ldm_parse_vblk (data, len, vb)) {
+ kfree(vb);
return FALSE; /* Already logged */
+ }

/* Put vblk into the correct list. */
switch (vb->type) {
-
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