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pstore/ram: Avoid allocation and leak of platform data

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commit 5631e8576a upstream.

Yue Hu noticed that when parsing device tree the allocated platform data
was never freed. Since it's not used beyond the function scope, this
switches to using a stack variable instead.

Reported-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@yulong.com>
Fixes: 35da60941e ("pstore/ram: add Device Tree bindings")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Kees Cook 2019-01-20 14:33:34 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent a10cabbf7a
commit 483ac8e65a
1 changed files with 3 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -713,18 +713,15 @@ static int ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
struct ramoops_platform_data *pdata = dev->platform_data;
struct ramoops_platform_data pdata_local;
struct ramoops_context *cxt = &oops_cxt;
size_t dump_mem_sz;
phys_addr_t paddr;
int err = -EINVAL;
if (dev_of_node(dev) && !pdata) {
pdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pdata) {
pr_err("cannot allocate platform data buffer\n");
err = -ENOMEM;
goto fail_out;
}
pdata = &pdata_local;
memset(pdata, 0, sizeof(*pdata));
err = ramoops_parse_dt(pdev, pdata);
if (err < 0)