missing check after kmalloc in drivers/video/sbus.c and not only

Vladimir V. Klenov (maple@ixcelerator.com)
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:59:41 +0300


Hello,

kernel is 2.4.1-pre8

missing check after kmalloc in drivers/video/sbus.c, possible memory leak
in case of sbusfb_init_fb() failure, unnesesary compare (memset to area
before).
best explanation is a patch, look:

--- drivers/video/sbusfb.c.orig Fri Jan 19 19:14:22 2001
+++ drivers/video/sbusfb.c Fri Jan 19 19:56:20 2001
@@ -1070,8 +1070,14 @@
fb->cursor.hwsize.fbx = 32;
fb->cursor.hwsize.fby = 32;

- if (depth > 1 && !fb->color_map)
+ if (depth > 1) {
fb->color_map = kmalloc(256 * 3, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if(!fb->color_map) {
+ prom_printf("sbusfb: could not allocate memory for color map\n");
+ kfree(fb);
+ return;
+ }
+ }

switch(fbtype) {
#ifdef CONFIG_FB_CREATOR
@@ -1110,6 +1116,7 @@
}

if (!p) {
+ kfree(fb->color_map);
kfree(fb);
return;
}
@@ -1147,6 +1154,7 @@
sbusfb_set_var(var, -1, &fb->info);

if (register_framebuffer(&fb->info) < 0) {
+ kfree(fb->color_map);
kfree(fb);
return;
}

SY, Vladimir

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