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* Memleak fix for DIGITAL EtherWORKS 3 ethernet driver
@ 2003-04-22 19:38 Oleg Drokin
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From: Oleg Drokin @ 2003-04-22 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: alan, torvalds, linux-kernel, marcelo

Hello!

   There is a memleak on error exit path that is trivial to fix.
   The problem is present both in 2.4 and 2.5, the same patch applies.

   Please consider applying.

Bye,
    Oleg

===== drivers/net/ewrk3.c 1.20 vs edited =====
--- 1.20/drivers/net/ewrk3.c	Tue Dec  3 04:22:09 2002
+++ edited/drivers/net/ewrk3.c	Tue Apr 22 23:33:40 2003
@@ -1972,7 +1972,10 @@
 	case EWRK3_GET_STATS: { /* Get the driver statistics */
 		struct ewrk3_stats *tmp_stats =
         		kmalloc(sizeof(lp->pktStats), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!tmp_stats) return -ENOMEM;
+		if (!tmp_stats) {
+			status = -ENOMEM;
+			break;
+		}
 
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->hw_lock, flags);
 		memcpy(tmp_stats, &lp->pktStats, sizeof(lp->pktStats));

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