From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:52:03 +0000 Subject: [patch v2] gcov: add a kfree() on error to new_node() Message-Id: <20120914065203.GB11886@elgon.mountain> List-Id: In-Reply-To: <5051D4D4.7060906@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Oberparleiter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org We should free "node->loaded_info" on this error path. We'd never care in real life but it makes the static checkers happy. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- v2: some style changes. diff --git a/kernel/gcov/fs.c b/kernel/gcov/fs.c index 9bd0934..7ba47f7 100644 --- a/kernel/gcov/fs.c +++ b/kernel/gcov/fs.c @@ -451,8 +451,7 @@ static struct gcov_node *new_node(struct gcov_node *parent, node->dentry = debugfs_create_dir(node->name, parent->dentry); if (!node->dentry) { pr_warning("could not create file\n"); - kfree(node); - return NULL; + goto err_info; } if (info) add_links(node, parent->dentry); @@ -461,6 +460,8 @@ static struct gcov_node *new_node(struct gcov_node *parent, return node; +err_info: + kfree(node->loaded_info); err_nomem: kfree(node); pr_warning("out of memory\n");