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From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: Memleak in driver for the Specialix SX series cards.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:05:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030312220516.A20780@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030312204114.GA28438@linuxhacker.ru>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:41:14PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>     I see there is a memleak in driver for the Specialix SX series cards
>     on error exit path in sx_fw_ioctl() (both in 2.4 and 2.5).
>     See the patch.
>     Found with help of smatch + unfree script.

...
> +					kfree (tmp);
>  					return -EFAULT;

Hi Oleg, 

You're right. I left it like this because "root can always mess up the
machine". But once fixed, I agree that it's better this way. 

			Roger. 


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      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-12 20:41 Memleak in driver for the Specialix SX series cards Oleg Drokin
2003-03-12 21:05 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]

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