Forwarded: [PATCH] mtd: phram: fix memory leak in phram_setup()

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Subject: [PATCH] mtd: phram: fix memory leak in phram_setup()
Author: kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master


phram_setup() allocates the device name with kstrdup() in
parse_name(). The error paths that follow (illegal start address,
illegal device length, illegal erasesize, illegal erasesize or len,
and len not a multiple of erasesize) use the parse_err() macro, which
expands to pr_err() followed by an immediate "return 1". The
"goto error" statements after it are therefore never reached, and
kfree(name) at the error label is skipped, leaking the name.

Replace parse_err() with pr_err() at those sites so control reaches
the error label and frees the name. Leave the parse_err() calls that
run before parse_name() alone, since nothing has been allocated yet.

As a side effect, these paths now return a negative errno instead of
1, which is the correct convention for a module parameter setter.

Reported-by: syzbot+c9d8bc9f8ccc03799e1f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c9d8bc9f8ccc03799e1f
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
index b42cadcd76b1..7aed57b31967 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
@@ -289,34 +289,34 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val)
 
 	ret = parse_num64(&start, token[1]);
 	if (ret) {
-		parse_err("illegal start address\n");
+		pr_err("illegal start address\n");
 		goto error;
 	}
 
 	ret = parse_num64(&len, token[2]);
 	if (ret) {
-		parse_err("illegal device length\n");
+		pr_err("illegal device length\n");
 		goto error;
 	}
 
 	if (token[3]) {
 		ret = parse_num64(&erasesize, token[3]);
 		if (ret) {
-			parse_err("illegal erasesize\n");
+			pr_err("illegal erasesize\n");
 			goto error;
 		}
 	}
 
 	if (len == 0 || erasesize == 0 || erasesize > len
 	    || erasesize > UINT_MAX) {
-		parse_err("illegal erasesize or len\n");
+		pr_err("illegal erasesize or len\n");
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto error;
 	}
 
 	div_u64_rem(len, (uint32_t)erasesize, &rem);
 	if (rem) {
-		parse_err("len is not multiple of erasesize\n");
+		pr_err("len is not multiple of erasesize\n");
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto error;
 	}
-- 
2.43.0