From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> mainline inclusion from mainline-v5.4-rc7 commit 1fa1b6ca0fda97cbfccdc6b80b1a6b2920751665 category: feature bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I47H3V CVE: NA -------------------------------- 'mode' is malloced in mode_store() and should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak. Fixes: 615c164da0eb ("intel_th: msu: Introduce buffer interface") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190801013825.182543-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191028070651.9770-6-alexander.shishkin@linux.int... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c index f942edb07eacf..ff386ab74db7f 100644 --- a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c @@ -1845,8 +1845,10 @@ mode_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, return -ENOMEM; i = match_string(msc_mode, ARRAY_SIZE(msc_mode), mode); - if (i >= 0) + if (i >= 0) { + kfree(mode); goto found; + } /* Buffer sinks only work with a usable IRQ */ if (!msc->do_irq) { -- 2.25.1