From: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
To: Nam Cao <namcaov@gmail.com>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] staging: rtl8712: clean up dynamic memory management
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e72ff575-4ed3-77ca-fa76-27a0e084b1d7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1666688642.git.namcaov@gmail.com>
On 10/25/22 11:12, Nam Cao wrote:
> This driver is fine if memory allocation never fails. However it does not
> handle allocation failure well. This can either lead to memory leak, or
> unallocated buffers being used.
>
> v2: Add a missing if statement, as noticed by Dan Carpenter
>
> Nam Cao (4):
> Revert "staging: r8712u: Tracking kmemleak false positives."
> staging: rtl8712: check for alloc fail in _r8712_init_recv_priv()
> staging: rtl8712: check for return value of _r8712_init_xmit_priv()
> staging: rtl8712: fix potential memory leak
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/recv_osdep.h | 8 ++++----
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c | 7 ++++---
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c | 16 ++++++++-------
> 4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-25 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-25 9:12 [PATCH v2 0/4] staging: rtl8712: clean up dynamic memory management Nam Cao
2022-10-25 9:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Revert "staging: r8712u: Tracking kmemleak false positives." Nam Cao
2022-10-25 9:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] staging: rtl8712: check for alloc fail in _r8712_init_recv_priv() Nam Cao
2022-10-25 9:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] staging: rtl8712: check for return value of _r8712_init_xmit_priv() Nam Cao
2022-10-25 9:12 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] staging: rtl8712: fix potential memory leak Nam Cao
2022-10-25 18:37 ` Philipp Hortmann [this message]
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