[PATCH] sg.c: fix a memory leak in devices seq_file implementation (2nd)

I know that scsi procfs is legacy code but this is a fix for a memory leak.

While reading through sg.c I realized that the implementation of
/proc/scsi/sg/devices with seq_file is leaking memory due to freeing the
pointer returned by the next() iterator method. Since next() might
return NULL or an error this is wrong. This patch fixes it through using
the seq_files private field for holding the reference to the iterator
object.

Here is a small bash script to trigger the leak. Use slabtop to watch
the size-32 usage grow and grow.

#!/bin/sh

while true; do
	cat /proc/scsi/sg/devices > /dev/null
done

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
index 7936aafc3d05644bad589d0776b4ac9e6fcda00b..7db9f19d47cd7a5191e7de8f854d1e4431e4646a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -2969,23 +2969,22 @@ static void * dev_seq_start(struct seq_file *s, loff_t *pos)
 {
        struct sg_proc_deviter * it = kmalloc(sizeof(*it), GFP_KERNEL);
 
+       s->private = it;
        if (! it)
                return NULL;
+
        if (NULL == sg_dev_arr)
-               goto err1;
+               return NULL;
        it->index = *pos;
        it->max = sg_last_dev();
        if (it->index >= it->max)
-               goto err1;
+               return NULL;
        return it;
-err1:
-       kfree(it);
-       return NULL;
 }
 
 static void * dev_seq_next(struct seq_file *s, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 {
-       struct sg_proc_deviter * it = (struct sg_proc_deviter *) v;
+       struct sg_proc_deviter * it = s->private;
 
        *pos = ++it->index;
        return (it->index < it->max) ? it : NULL;
@@ -2993,7 +2992,9 @@ static void * dev_seq_next(struct seq_file *s, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 
 static void dev_seq_stop(struct seq_file *s, void *v)
 {
-       kfree (v);
+       struct sg_proc_deviter * it = s->private;
+
+       kfree (it);
 }
 
 static int sg_proc_open_dev(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)