From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: rsi: fix memory leak on buf and usb_reg_buf Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 13:26:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20171207132603.1A9C260240@smtp.codeaurora.org> References: <20171116173918.3030-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Amitkumar Karwar , Prameela Rani Garnepudi , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Colin Ian King Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171116173918.3030-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Colin Ian King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > In the cases where len is too long, the error return path fails to > kfree allocated buffers buf and usb_reg_buf. The simplest fix is to > perform the sanity check on len before the allocations to avoid having > to do the kfree'ing in the first place. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1452258,1452259 ("Resource Leak") > > Fixes: 59f73e2ae185 ("rsi: check length before USB read/write register") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. c4ee30a280b1 wlcore, wl1251: fix spelling: "Couldnt" -> "Couldn't" and remove error on -ENOMEM -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10061619/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches