[PATCH] cifs: Fix a tiny potential memory leak

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Sat Jan 5 18:18:03 UTC 2019


The most recent "it" allocation is leaked on this error path.  I
believe that small allocations always succeed in current kernels so
this doesn't really affect run time.

Fixes: 54be1f6c1c37 ("cifs: Add DFS cache routines")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
---
 fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
index cd63c4a70875..09b7d0d4f6e4 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
@@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static int get_tgt_list(const struct dfs_cache_entry *ce,
 		it->it_name = kstrndup(t->t_name, strlen(t->t_name),
 				       GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!it->it_name) {
+			kfree(it);
 			rc = -ENOMEM;
 			goto err_free_it;
 		}
--
2.17.1



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