Commit d1c2f87c authored by Lee Jones's avatar Lee Jones Committed by Jassi Brar

mailbox: mailbox-test: Prevent memory leak

If we set the Signal twice or more, without using it as part of a message,
memory will be re-allocated and the pointer over-written.  Prevent this
potential leak by only allocating memory when there isn't any already.
Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
parent 17f5f28f
......@@ -59,9 +59,12 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_signal_write(struct file *filp,
return -EINVAL;
}
tdev->signal = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_SIG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tdev->signal)
return -ENOMEM;
/* Only allocate memory if we need to */
if (!tdev->signal) {
tdev->signal = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_SIG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tdev->signal)
return -ENOMEM;
}
if (copy_from_user(tdev->signal, userbuf, count)) {
kfree(tdev->signal);
......
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