From e869e6223d29115d2d8351e5e3f514ddc1099f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Khoroshilov Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 00:33:25 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 065b3425df1..6b43ec6362e 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1045,6 +1045,8 @@ rollback: */ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len) { + char *new_ifalias; + ASSERT_RTNL(); if (len >= IFALIASZ) @@ -1058,9 +1060,10 @@ 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; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258