5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au
[ Upstream commit f2d5bccaca3e8c09c9b9c8485375f7bdbb2631d2 ]
simple_realloc() frees the original buffer (ptr) even if the reallocation failed.
Fix it to behave like standard realloc() and only free the original buffer if the reallocation succeeded.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Link: https://msgid.link/20240229115149.749264-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/powerpc/boot/simple_alloc.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/simple_alloc.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/simple_alloc.c index 188c4f996512a..bc99f75b8582d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/simple_alloc.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/simple_alloc.c @@ -114,10 +114,11 @@ static void *simple_realloc(void *ptr, unsigned long size) return ptr;
new = simple_malloc(size); - if (new) + if (new) { memcpy(new, ptr, p->size); + simple_free(ptr); + }
- simple_free(ptr); return new; }