From patchwork Tue Apr 27 18:54:33 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mark Langsdorf X-Patchwork-Id: 12227131 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-13.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0DAC433B4 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6176C613EA for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238607AbhD0SzX (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:55:23 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([216.205.24.124]:25823 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236889AbhD0SzW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:55:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1619549678; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SEt3Zizca67SuoXjsRTLcir+vAvjzN+U+jVjcjuIJKQ=; b=h6lYiwg1XZ3eld9LH2EqQmVkGlGP1EP1o4vQ39e5cXD5j5+/fTYf+QyttENHctaVgh6pEq OJMbR8XuNi21KFlXxTSasODu6IFMjJ2CrVoskUsWTq6PZBXgf3qNwHHgTJZrOi89ijKPXi 8s5ShyogibvKg/CUQdfBjmBiHO4rJP4= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-567-06PqNkX5OcWGa8q3X8VnOg-1; Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:54:36 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 06PqNkX5OcWGa8q3X8VnOg-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7451A8014C1 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from redhatnow.users.ipa.redhat.com (ovpn-113-173.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.173]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0C719714 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:54:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Mark Langsdorf To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: custom_method: fix a possible memory leak Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:54:33 -0500 Message-Id: <20210427185434.34885-1-mlangsdo@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.23 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org In cm_write(), if the 'buf' is allocated memory but not fully consumed, it is possible to reallocate the buffer without freeing it by passing '*ppos' as 0 on a subsequent call. Add an explicit kfree() before kzalloc() to prevent the possible memory leak. Fixes: 526b4af47f44 ("ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver") Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf --- drivers/acpi/custom_method.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c index 443fdf62dd22..6dc96f2cef1d 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf, sizeof(struct acpi_table_header))) return -EFAULT; uncopied_bytes = max_size = table.length; + /* make sure the buf is not allocated */ + kfree(buf); buf = kzalloc(max_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) return -ENOMEM;