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authorNavid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>2019-09-30 15:42:22 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-10 14:50:32 +0200
commite0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2 (patch)
treef25a5186cb5d1fff89c24a9cc47e81a092a67f0d /drivers/virt
parent5dc54a06f6e575f146492661129d24f3b50d17bb (diff)
downloadlinux-e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2.tar.gz
virt: vbox: fix memory leak in hgcm_call_preprocess_linaddr
In hgcm_call_preprocess_linaddr memory is allocated for bounce_buf but
is not released if copy_form_user fails. In order to prevent memory leak
in case of failure, the assignment to bounce_buf_ret is moved before the
error check. This way the allocated bounce_buf will be released by the
caller.

Fixes: 579db9d45cb4 ("virt: Add vboxguest VMMDEV communication code")
Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190930204223.3660-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virt')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c
index 75fd140b02ff..43c391626a00 100644
--- a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ static int hgcm_call_preprocess_linaddr(
 	if (!bounce_buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	*bounce_buf_ret = bounce_buf;
+
 	if (copy_in) {
 		ret = copy_from_user(bounce_buf, (void __user *)buf, len);
 		if (ret)
@@ -228,7 +230,6 @@ static int hgcm_call_preprocess_linaddr(
 		memset(bounce_buf, 0, len);
 	}
 
-	*bounce_buf_ret = bounce_buf;
 	hgcm_call_add_pagelist_size(bounce_buf, len, extra);
 	return 0;
 }