Commit 8fe72b76 authored by Dan Carpenter's avatar Dan Carpenter Committed by Jassi Brar

mailbox: mailbox-test: fix a locking issue in mbox_test_message_write()

There was a bug where this code forgot to unlock the tdev->mutex if the
kzalloc() failed.  Fix this issue, by moving the allocation outside the
lock.

Fixes: 2d1e952a ("mailbox: mailbox-test: Fix potential double-free in mbox_test_message_write()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
parent 884fe9da
......@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_message_write(struct file *filp,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct mbox_test_device *tdev = filp->private_data;
char *message;
void *data;
int ret;
......@@ -113,12 +114,13 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_message_write(struct file *filp,
return -EINVAL;
}
mutex_lock(&tdev->mutex);
tdev->message = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_MSG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tdev->message)
message = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_MSG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!message)
return -ENOMEM;
mutex_lock(&tdev->mutex);
tdev->message = message;
ret = copy_from_user(tdev->message, userbuf, count);
if (ret) {
ret = -EFAULT;
......
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