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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/custom_method.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/custom_method.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c index 435bd0ffc8c0..ea4c7c93a920 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user * user_buf, sizeof(struct acpi_table_header))) return -EFAULT; uncopied_bytes = max_size = table.length; + /* make sure the buf is not allocated */ + kfree(buf); buf = kzalloc(max_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; @@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user * user_buf, (*ppos + count < count) || (count > uncopied_bytes)) { kfree(buf); + buf = NULL; return -EINVAL; } @@ -71,7 +74,6 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user * user_buf, add_taint(TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE); } - kfree(buf); return count; } |