From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: luciano.coelho@intel.com, kvalo@codeaurora.org,
davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com,
pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com, drorx.moshe@intel.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: pnvm: Fix a memory leak in 'iwl_pnvm_get_from_fs()'
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:19:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210903081929.GB1957@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b5d80f54c1dbf85710fd285243932943b498fe7.1630614969.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 10:38:11PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> A firmware is requested but never released in this function. This leads to
> a memory leak in the normal execution path.
>
> Add the missing 'release_firmware()' call.
> Also introduce a temp variable (new_len) in order to keep the value of
> 'pnvm->size' after the firmware has been released.
>
> Fixes: cdda18fbbefa ("iwlwifi: pnvm: move file loading code to a separate function")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-02 20:38 [PATCH] iwlwifi: pnvm: Fix a memory leak in 'iwl_pnvm_get_from_fs()' Christophe JAILLET
2021-09-03 8:19 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-09-03 8:55 ` Coelho, Luciano
2021-09-05 6:11 ` Kalle Valo
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