From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: [2.4] Memleak in Aironet 4500 Pcmcia driver
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:45:28 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030422194528.GA7471@linuxhacker.ru> (raw)
Hello!
There is a memleak in Aironet 4500 Pcmcia driver on error exit path
that is trivial to fix.
Please consider following path.
Found with help of smatch's unfree script.
Bye,
Oleg
===== drivers/net/pcmcia/aironet4500_cs.c 1.8 vs edited =====
--- 1.8/drivers/net/pcmcia/aironet4500_cs.c Wed Aug 7 22:27:37 2002
+++ edited/drivers/net/pcmcia/aironet4500_cs.c Tue Apr 22 23:40:53 2003
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
};
memset(dev,0,sizeof(struct net_device));
dev->priv = kmalloc(sizeof(struct awc_private), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dev->priv ) {printk(KERN_CRIT "out of mem on dev priv alloc \n"); return NULL;};
+ if (!dev->priv ) {printk(KERN_CRIT "out of mem on dev priv alloc \n"); kfree(dev); return NULL;};
memset(dev->priv,0,sizeof(struct awc_private));
// link->dev->minor = dev->minor;
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