From: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Memory leaks can happen in the vc_resize() function in drivers/char/vt.c
because of the vc->vc_screenbuf variable overriding in vc_allocate(). The
kmemleak reported trace is as follows:
<__kmalloc>
<vc_resize>
<fbcon_init>
<visual_init>
<vc_allocate>
<con_open>
<tty_open>
<chrdev_open>
This patch no longer allocates a screen buffer in vc_allocate() if it was
already allocated by vc_resize().
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/vt.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index da7e66a..31c8b32 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -730,7 +730,8 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons) /
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
if (!*vc->vc_uni_pagedir_loc)
con_set_default_unimap(vc);
- vc->vc_screenbuf = kmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!vc->vc_kmalloced)
+ vc->vc_screenbuf = kmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vc->vc_screenbuf) {
kfree(vc);
vc_cons[currcons].d = NULL;
-
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