[PATCH bz #11425] tpm: release memory on init failure

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To: lkml <linux-kernel@...>, akpm <akpm@...>
Cc: <tpmdd-devel@...>, Daniel <danielm77@...>
Date: Monday, September 8, 2008 - 1:45 pm

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

For kernel bugzilla #11425:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11425

Release memory on init failure.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Daniel Marjamäki <danielm77@spray.se>
cc: tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20080905.orig/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
+++ linux-next-20080905/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
@@ -1183,11 +1183,8 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpm_register_hardware(s
chip = kzalloc(sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL);
devname = kmalloc(DEVNAME_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

- if (chip == NULL || devname == NULL) {
- kfree(chip);
- kfree(devname);
- return NULL;
- }
+ if (chip == NULL || devname == NULL)
+ goto fail;

mutex_init(&chip->buffer_mutex);
mutex_init(&chip->tpm_mutex);
@@ -1204,8 +1201,7 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpm_register_hardware(s

if (chip->dev_num >= TPM_NUM_DEVICES) {
dev_err(dev, "No available tpm device numbers\n");
- kfree(chip);
- return NULL;
+ goto fail;
} else if (chip->dev_num == 0)
chip->vendor.miscdev.minor = TPM_MINOR;
else
@@ -1228,7 +1224,7 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpm_register_hardware(s
chip->vendor.miscdev.name,
chip->vendor.miscdev.minor);
put_device(chip->dev);
- return NULL;
+ goto fail;
}

spin_lock(&driver_lock);
@@ -1241,12 +1237,17 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpm_register_hardware(s
list_del(&chip->list);
misc_deregister(&chip->vendor.miscdev);
put_device(chip->dev);
- return NULL;
+ goto fail;
}

chip->bios_dir = tpm_bios_log_setup(devname);

return chip;
+
+fail:
+ kfree(chip);
+ kfree(devname);
+ return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpm_register_hardware);

---
~Randy
Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/
--

To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <tpmdd-devel@...>, <danielm77@...>
Date: Monday, September 8, 2008 - 8:39 pm

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:45:30 -0700

Seems I already fixed it:
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-char-tpm-tpmc-f...

(identical to yours, with a different label name).
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