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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
	Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Resource leak fix for whiteheat driver
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:59:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604231959.23877.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> (raw)

We may return from drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c::whiteheat_attach() 
without freeing `result' if we leave via the no_firmware: label.

Spotted by the coverity checker as #670


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

 drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- linux-2.6.17-rc2-git4-orig/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c	2006-03-20 06:53:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc2-git4/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c	2006-04-23 19:52:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ no_firmware:
 	err("%s: Unable to retrieve firmware version, try replugging\n", serial->type->description);
 	err("%s: If the firmware is not running (status led not blinking)\n", serial->type->description);
 	err("%s: please contact support@connecttech.com\n", serial->type->description);
+	kfree(result);
 	return -ENODEV;
 
 no_command_private:




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