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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: "open list:HID CORE LAYER" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 2/2 -next] hid-lg4ff: add a kfree() to an error path
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:43:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110818134343.GB21927@shale.localdomain> (raw)

There is a small rare potential memory leak here.  But it's easy to
fix.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c b/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c
index dc38c2d..2b4bbcb 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ int lg4ff_init(struct hid_device *hid)
 	entry->device_id = (char *)kzalloc(strlen((&hid->dev)->kobj.name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entry->device_id) {
 		hid_err(hid, "Cannot set device_id, insufficient memory.\n");
+		kfree(entry);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	strcpy(entry->device_id, (&hid->dev)->kobj.name);

             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-18 13:43 Dan Carpenter [this message]
     [not found] ` <CAMvewQJigdY81gPrpndqV=FxN+cEeif4NkzSbBZKCO4z3guQew@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-18 16:24   ` [patch 2/2 -next] hid-lg4ff: add a kfree() to an error path Dan Carpenter
     [not found] ` <4E4D2E4A.3020205@bfs.de>
2011-08-19  8:00   ` [patch 2/2 -next v2] " Dan Carpenter
2011-08-23  8:46     ` Jiri Kosina

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