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Message-ID: <46B44B2B.7050609@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:47:23 +0200
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Manuel Jander <mjander@...edded.cl>,
alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] au88x0: mem leak fix in snd_vortex_create()
On 08/04/2007 02:09 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> In sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c::snd_vortex_create() :
> The Coverity checker found that if we allocate storage for 'chip'
> but then leave via the regions_out: label, then we end up leaking
> the storage allocated for 'chip'.
> I believe simply freeing 'chip' before the "return err;" line is
> all we need to fix this, but please double-check me :)
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c b/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c
> index 5ec1b6f..f70286a 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c
> @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ snd_vortex_create(struct snd_card *card, struct pci_dev *pci, vortex_t ** rchip)
> pci_disable_device(chip->pci_dev);
> //FIXME: this not the right place to unregister the gameport
> vortex_gameport_unregister(chip);
> + kfree(chip);
> return err;
> }
ACK.
Rene.
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