[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "mei: nfc: fix memory leak in error path" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mei: nfc: fix memory leak in error path

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e549c990b3b58a23f923c07345fcda47a1e6d98a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin at intel.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:07:57 +0300
Subject: mei: nfc: fix memory leak in error path

commit 8e8248b1369c97c7bb6f8bcaee1f05deeabab8ef upstream.

NFC will leak buffer if send failed.
Use single exit point that does the freeing

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c b/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
index 994ca4a..4b7ea3f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
@@ -342,9 +342,10 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 	ndev = (struct mei_nfc_dev *) cldev->priv_data;
 	dev = ndev->cl->dev;

+	err = -ENOMEM;
 	mei_buf = kzalloc(length + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mei_buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;

 	hdr = (struct mei_nfc_hci_hdr *) mei_buf;
 	hdr->cmd = MEI_NFC_CMD_HCI_SEND;
@@ -354,12 +355,9 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 	hdr->data_size = length;

 	memcpy(mei_buf + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE, buf, length);
-
 	err = __mei_cl_send(ndev->cl, mei_buf, length + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE);
 	if (err < 0)
-		return err;
-
-	kfree(mei_buf);
+		goto out;

 	if (!wait_event_interruptible_timeout(ndev->send_wq,
 				ndev->recv_req_id == ndev->req_id, HZ)) {
@@ -368,7 +366,8 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 	} else {
 		ndev->req_id++;
 	}
-
+out:
+	kfree(mei_buf);
 	return err;
 }

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1.9.1