Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix resource leak

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 09:30:54PM +0200, Mateusz Kulikowski wrote:
> Firmware was not released properly if kmemdup fails.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-Id: 1269118
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c
> index cd014f7..87bb87f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c
> @@ -249,13 +249,13 @@ int rtl8723a_FirmwareDownload(struct rtw_adapter *padapter)
>  		goto Exit;
>  	}
>  	firmware_buf = kmemdup(fw->data, fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	release_firmware(fw);
>  	if (!firmware_buf) {
>  		rtStatus = _FAIL;
>  		goto Exit;
>  	}
>  	buf = firmware_buf;
>  	fw_size = fw->size;
> -	release_firmware(fw);
You are releasing the firmware and then accessing fw->size here. That
just introduced a NULL pointer dereference.

regards
sudip