From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vasiliy Kulikov Subject: [PATCH 1/9] ibm_newemac: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:58:00 +0400 Message-ID: <1285495080-21857-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Pirko , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "David S. Miller" To: kernel-janitors-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Freeing netdev without free_netdev() leads to net, tx leaks. I might lead to dereferencing freed pointer. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) @@ struct net_device* dev; @@ -kfree(dev) +free_netdev(dev) --- drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c index 3506fd6..519e19e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c @@ -2928,7 +2928,7 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev, if (dev->emac_irq != NO_IRQ) irq_dispose_mapping(dev->emac_irq); err_free: - kfree(ndev); + free_netdev(ndev); err_gone: /* if we were on the bootlist, remove us as we won't show up and * wake up all waiters to notify them in case they were waiting @@ -2971,7 +2971,7 @@ static int __devexit emac_remove(struct platform_device *ofdev) if (dev->emac_irq != NO_IRQ) irq_dispose_mapping(dev->emac_irq); - kfree(dev->ndev); + free_netdev(dev->ndev); return 0; } -- 1.7.0.4