linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] drivers/pci: introduce missing kfree

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Date:	Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:16:22 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] drivers/pci: introduce missing kfree

On Sunday, February 8, 2009 1:45 pm Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>
> Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data.
> Since the subsequent code that could provoke an error does not use the
> allocated data, the allocation is just moved below it.
>
> The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Applied to my linux-next branch, thanks.
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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