net/ipv4: Eliminate kstrdup memory leak

The string clone is only used as a temporary copy of the argument val
within the while loop, and so it should be freed before leaving the
function.  The call to strsep, however, modifies clone, so a pointer to the
front of the string is kept in saved_clone, to make it possible to free it.

The sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
expression E;
identifier l;
statement S;
@@

*x= \(kasprintf\|kstrdup\)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
... when != kfree(x)
    when != E = x
if (...) {
  <... when != kfree(x)
* goto l;
  ...>
* return ...;
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
index 0ec9bd0..850c737 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -196,10 +196,10 @@ void tcp_get_allowed_congestion_control(char *buf, size_t maxlen)
 int tcp_set_allowed_congestion_control(char *val)
 {
        struct tcp_congestion_ops *ca;
-       char *clone, *name;
+       char *saved_clone, *clone, *name;
        int ret = 0;
 
-       clone = kstrdup(val, GFP_USER);
+       saved_clone = clone = kstrdup(val, GFP_USER);
        if (!clone)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int tcp_set_allowed_congestion_control(char *val)
        }
 out:
        spin_unlock(&tcp_cong_list_lock);
+       kfree(saved_clone);
 
        return ret;
 }