* [PATCH] Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak in bcm_char_ioctl()
@ 2012-09-03 10:02 Wei Yongjun
2012-09-04 1:19 ` Kevin McKinney
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Wei Yongjun @ 2012-09-03 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gregkh; +Cc: yongjun_wei, devel, linux-kernel
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
psFwInfo has been allocated in this function and should be
freed before leaving from the error handling cases.
spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
---
drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
index cf411d1..3d02c2e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ cntrlEnd:
if (copy_from_user(psFwInfo, IoBuffer.InputBuffer, IoBuffer.InputLength)) {
up(&Adapter->fw_download_sema);
+ kfree(psFwInfo);
return -EFAULT;
}
@@ -829,6 +830,7 @@ cntrlEnd:
BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_PRINTK, 0, 0, "Something else is wrong %lu\n",
psFwInfo->u32FirmwareLength);
up(&Adapter->fw_download_sema);
+ kfree(psFwInfo);
Status = -EINVAL;
return Status;
}
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* Re: [PATCH] Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak in bcm_char_ioctl()
2012-09-03 10:02 [PATCH] Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak in bcm_char_ioctl() Wei Yongjun
@ 2012-09-04 1:19 ` Kevin McKinney
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kevin McKinney @ 2012-09-04 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wei Yongjun, Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: devel, yongjun_wei, linux-kernel, Dan Carpenter, klmckinney1
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:02:23PM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
>
> psFwInfo has been allocated in this function and should be
> freed before leaving from the error handling cases.
>
> spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
> ---
> drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
> index cf411d1..3d02c2e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
Acked-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@gmail.com>
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