test_firmware: fix a memory leak bug

[ Upstream commit d4fddac ]

In test_firmware_init(), the buffer pointed to by the global pointer
'test_fw_config' is allocated through kzalloc(). Then, the buffer is
initialized in __test_firmware_config_init(). In the case that the
initialization fails, the following execution in test_firmware_init() needs
to be terminated with an error code returned to indicate this failure.
However, the allocated buffer is not freed on this execution path, leading
to a memory leak bug.

To fix the above issue, free the allocated buffer before returning from
test_firmware_init().

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

lib/test_firmware.c

@@ -895,8 +895,11 @@ static int __init test_firmware_init(void)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	rc = __test_firmware_config_init();
-	if (rc)
+	if (rc) {
+		kfree(test_fw_config);
+		pr_err("could not init firmware test config: %d\n", rc);
 		return rc;
+	}
 
 	rc = misc_register(&test_fw_misc_device);
 	if (rc) {