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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: xypron.glpk@gmx.de
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	ly80toro@cip.cs.fau.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ke42caxa@cip.cs.fau.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] usbip/userspace/libsrc/names.c: memory leak
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:50:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140127225004.GA17970@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390861789-8981-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de>

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:29:48PM +0100, xypron.glpk@gmx.de wrote:
> From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
> 
> p is freed if NULL.

Not a real problem, right?

> p is leaked if second calloc fails.

You just created a new bug in your "fix" :(

Please run your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, odds are, it
would have caught this error.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-27 22:29 [PATCH 1/1] usbip/userspace/libsrc/names.c: memory leak xypron.glpk
2014-01-27 22:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-01-27 23:02   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-01-27 23:27     ` Greg KH
2014-01-28  0:04       ` Dan Carpenter
2014-01-27 22:52 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-01-28 20:16   ` xypron.glpk
2014-01-27 23:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov

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