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Message-ID: <1293396850.7726.14.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:54:10 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"John(Zongxi) Chen" <zongxi@...adcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Broadcom CNIC core network driver: fix mem leak on
 allocation failures in cnic_alloc_uio_rings()

On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 21:30 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> We are leaking memory in drivers/net/cnic.c::cnic_alloc_uio_rings() if 
> either of the calls to dma_alloc_coherent() fail.
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
>  cnic.c |   10 ++++++++--
> diff --git a/drivers/net/cnic.c b/drivers/net/cnic.c
[]
> -	if (!udev->l2_ring)
> +	if (!udev->l2_ring) {
> +		kfree(udev);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
[]
> -	if (!udev->l2_buf)
> +	if (!udev->l2_buf) {
> +		dma_free_coherent(&udev->pdev->dev, udev->l2_ring_size,
> +				  udev->l2_ring, udev->l2_ring_map);
> +		kfree(udev);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}

Perhaps this would be more standard with a goto error / exit block

err_dma:
	dma_free_coherent();
err_udev:
	kfree(udev);
	return -ENOMEM;

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