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* [PATCH] Broadcom CNIC core network driver: fix mem leak on allocation failures in cnic_alloc_uio_rings()
@ 2010-12-26 20:30 Jesper Juhl
  2010-12-26 20:54 ` Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Juhl @ 2010-12-26 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: linux-kernel, John(Zongxi) Chen, Michael Chan

Hi,

We are leaking memory in drivers/net/cnic.c::cnic_alloc_uio_rings() if 
either of the calls to dma_alloc_coherent() fail. This patch fixes it by 
freeing both the memory allocated with kzalloc() and memory allocated with 
previous calls to dma_alloc_coherent() when there's a failure.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 cnic.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

  compile tested only since I don't have the hardware to do a proper test.

diff --git a/drivers/net/cnic.c b/drivers/net/cnic.c
index 92bac19..f094159 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cnic.c
@@ -939,16 +939,22 @@ static int cnic_alloc_uio_rings(struct cnic_dev *dev, int pages)
 	udev->l2_ring = dma_alloc_coherent(&udev->pdev->dev, udev->l2_ring_size,
 					   &udev->l2_ring_map,
 					   GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP);
-	if (!udev->l2_ring)
+	if (!udev->l2_ring) {
+		kfree(udev);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	udev->l2_buf_size = (cp->l2_rx_ring_size + 1) * cp->l2_single_buf_size;
 	udev->l2_buf_size = PAGE_ALIGN(udev->l2_buf_size);
 	udev->l2_buf = dma_alloc_coherent(&udev->pdev->dev, udev->l2_buf_size,
 					  &udev->l2_buf_map,
 					  GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP);
-	if (!udev->l2_buf)
+	if (!udev->l2_buf) {
+		dma_free_coherent(&udev->pdev->dev, udev->l2_ring_size,
+				  udev->l2_ring, udev->l2_ring_map);
+		kfree(udev);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	write_lock(&cnic_dev_lock);
 	list_add(&udev->list, &cnic_udev_list);


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2010-12-26 20:30 [PATCH] Broadcom CNIC core network driver: fix mem leak on allocation failures in cnic_alloc_uio_rings() Jesper Juhl
2010-12-26 20:54 ` Joe Perches
2010-12-26 20:57   ` [PATCH v2] " Jesper Juhl
2010-12-27  3:57     ` Michael Chan
2010-12-31 19:20     ` David Miller
2011-01-02 18:54       ` Jesper Juhl

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