netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] wimax/i2400m: fix a memory leak bug

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Date:   Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     wenwen@...uga.edu
Cc:     inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com, linux-wimax@...el.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wimax/i2400m: fix a memory leak bug

From: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:29:51 -0500

> In i2400m_barker_db_init(), 'options_orig' is allocated through kstrdup()
> to hold the original command line options. Then, the options are parsed.
> However, if an error occurs during the parsing process, 'options_orig' is
> not deallocated, leading to a memory leak bug. To fix this issue, free
> 'options_orig' before returning the error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>

Applied, but... looking at the rest of this file I hope nobody is actually
running this code.