linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] caif: fix cfcnfg_add_phy

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Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:36:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jj@...osbits.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] caif: fix cfcnfg_add_phy_layer() leaks

From: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:01:00 +0200 (CEST)

> There are two locations where we 'goto out' after having allocated
> memory for 'phyinfo' but have not yet assigned it to anything. At the
> 'out:' label we'll exit from the function and 'phyinfo' will go out of
> scope and thus we leak the memory we allocated.
> 
> This patch frees the memory before jumping to 'out:', thus fixing the
> leaks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

The code in net-next looks a lot different, please see if the issue
still exists there and resubmit if so, thanks!
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