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From 039babe99fda6eb04a77ca29cacf98efd1a5f406 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 15:00:19 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] w1_therm: Free the correct variable

commit e420637b81f78d0fbacf539bdb1b341eba602aea upstream.

The problem is that we change "p_args" to point to the middle of the
string so when we free it at the end of the function it's not freeing
the same pointer that we originally allocated.

Fixes: e2c94d6f5720 ("w1_therm: adding alarm sysfs entry")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200520120019.GA172354@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/w1/slaves/w1_therm.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/w1/slaves/w1_therm.c
+++ b/drivers/w1/slaves/w1_therm.c
@@ -1526,8 +1526,9 @@ static ssize_t alarms_store(struct devic
 	int temp, ret = -EINVAL;
 	char *token = NULL;
 	s8 tl, th, tt;	/* 1 byte per value + temp ring order */
-	char *p_args = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	char *p_args, *orig;
 
+	p_args = orig = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	/* Safe string copys as buf is const */
 	if (!p_args) {
 		dev_warn(device,
@@ -1611,7 +1612,7 @@ static ssize_t alarms_store(struct devic
 
 free_m:
 	/* free allocated memory */
-	kfree(p_args);
+	kfree(orig);
 
 	return size;
 }