block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling

Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of function sg_io() that is used during the processing of scsi ioctl. Memory already allocated by rw_copy_check_uvector() needs to be freed correctly. Detected by Coverity: CID 1128953. Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
josf · Jan 22, 2014 · 17a05cc · 17a05cc
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commit 17a05cc
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -323,12 +323,14 @@ static int sg_io(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
 
 	if (hdr->iovec_count) {
 		size_t iov_data_len;
-		struct iovec *iov;
+		struct iovec *iov = NULL;
 
 		ret = rw_copy_check_uvector(-1, hdr->dxferp, hdr->iovec_count,
 					    0, NULL, &iov);
-		if (ret < 0)
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			kfree(iov);
 			goto out;
+		}
 
 		iov_data_len = ret;
 		ret = 0;