4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com
[ Upstream commit c0a32fe13cd323ca9420500b16fd69589c9ba91e ]
The error exit path omits kfree'ing the allocated new_smi, causing a memory leak. Fix this by kfree'ing new_smi.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#14582571 ("Resource Leak")
Fixes: 7e030d6dff71 ("ipmi: Prefer ACPI system interfaces over SMBIOS ones") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -3469,6 +3469,7 @@ static int add_smi(struct smi_info *new_ ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->addr_source), si_to_str[new_smi->si_type]); rv = -EBUSY; + kfree(new_smi); goto out_err; } }