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authorAlexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>2012-08-08 00:33:25 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-02 10:38:40 -0700
commitb5db88321043909060745304c1e485a6a2839d31 (patch)
tree8e589b7435c82b7401fcf6bced6efd1754d97f2d /net
parent9c939ce5216a7f4a604985c6b20ab92081b19848 (diff)
net/core: Fix potential memory leak in dev_set_alias()
[ Upstream commit 7364e445f62825758fa61195d237a5b8ecdd06ec ] Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d653a356b55b..eec544cb3730 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1055,6 +1055,8 @@ rollback:
*/
int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
{
+ char *new_ifalias;
+
ASSERT_RTNL();
if (len >= IFALIASZ)
@@ -1068,9 +1070,10 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
return 0;
}
- dev->ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dev->ifalias)
+ new_ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new_ifalias)
return -ENOMEM;
+ dev->ifalias = new_ifalias;
strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1);
return len;