From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ondrej Zary Subject: Re: [Patch] Memory Leak in sound/isa/es18xx.c Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:21:14 +0200 Message-ID: <200609280021.14839.linux@rainbow-software.org> References: <1159371001.9125.2.camel@alice> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailhub3.nextra.sk (smtp3.nextra.sk [195.168.1.142]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 4051A152 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:20:33 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <1159371001.9125.2.camel@alice> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Eric Sesterhenn Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wednesday 27 September 2006 17:30, Eric Sesterhenn wrote: > hi, > > your patch > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi >ff;h=1c3985580445ef9225c1ea7714d6d963f7626eeb to add PnP BIOS support to the > es18xx driver, removed a kfree(cfg) in an error path, was this intentional, > because coverity flagged it as a memory leak, and i found nothing that > speaks against it. Attached is a patch to readd the kfree() Yes, looks just like a stupid bug. Thanks. > Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn > > --- linux-2.6.18-git7/sound/isa/es18xx.c.orig 2006-09-27 17:02:57.000000000 > +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18-git7/sound/isa/es18xx.c 2006-09-27 > 17:03:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -2154,6 +2154,7 @@ static int __devinit > snd_audiodrive_pnpc > } > /* Control port initialization */ > if (pnp_activate_dev(acard->devc) < 0) { > + kfree(cfg); > snd_printk(KERN_ERR PFX "PnP control configure failure (out of > resources?)\n"); return -EAGAIN; > } -- Ondrej Zary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV