Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: fix memory leak in comedi_bond.c

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

On 2014-02-08 05:02, Chase Southwood wrote:
> We allocate bdev and then krealloc the devs pointer in order to add bdev
> at the end of the devpriv->devs array list.  But if for some reason this
> krealloc fails, we need to free bdev before returning an error otherwise
> this memory is leaked.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chase Southwood <chase.southwood@yahoo.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
> index 51a59e5..406aedb 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
> @@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ static int do_dev_config(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
>   			if (!devs) {
>   				dev_err(dev->class_dev,
>   					"Could not allocate memory. Out of memory?\n");
> +				kfree(bdev);
>   				return -ENOMEM;
>   			}
>   			devpriv->devs = devs;
>

Acked-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>

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