patch "fpga: m10bmc-sec: Fix possible memory leak of flash_buf" added to char-misc-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

fpga: m10bmc-sec: Fix possible memory leak of flash_buf

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 468c9d928a8f38fdfaa61b05e81473cc7c8a6461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Weight <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:52:05 -0700
Subject: fpga: m10bmc-sec: Fix possible memory leak of flash_buf

There is an error check following the allocation of flash_buf that returns without freeing flash_buf. It makes more sense to do the error check before the allocation and the reordering eliminates the memory leak.

---
 drivers/fpga/intel-m10-bmc-sec-update.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

index 72c677c910de..133e511355c9 100644
@@ -148,10 +148,6 @@ static ssize_t flash_count_show(struct device *dev,
 	stride = regmap_get_reg_stride(sec->m10bmc->regmap);
 	num_bits = FLASH_COUNT_SIZE * 8;
 
-	flash_buf = kmalloc(FLASH_COUNT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!flash_buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	if (FLASH_COUNT_SIZE % stride) {
 		dev_err(sec->dev,
 			"FLASH_COUNT_SIZE (0x%x) not aligned to stride (0x%x)\n",

@@ -160,6 +156,10 @@ static ssize_t flash_count_show(struct device *dev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	flash_buf = kmalloc(FLASH_COUNT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!flash_buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	ret = regmap_bulk_read(sec->m10bmc->regmap, STAGING_FLASH_COUNT,
 			       flash_buf, FLASH_COUNT_SIZE / stride);
 	if (ret) {

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