linux-kernel - [PATCH] Sound: AudioScience HPI: Don't leak firmware if mem alloc fails

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1107282145230.20477@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:48:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Eliot Blennerhassett <eblennerhassett@...ioscience.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	support@...ioscience.com
Subject: [PATCH] Sound: AudioScience HPI: Don't leak firmware if mem alloc
 fails

We leak the memory allocated to 'firmware' when we fail to
release_firmware() after a kmalloc() failure in hpi_dsp_code_open().
This patch should take care of the leak.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

	Build tested only.

diff --git a/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c b/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
index 3a7afa3..8d261ef 100644
--- a/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
+++ b/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ short hpi_dsp_code_open(u32 adapter, void *os_data, struct dsp_code *dsp_code,
 
 	HPI_DEBUG_LOG(DEBUG, "dsp code %s opened\n", fw_name);
 	dsp_code->pvt = kmalloc(sizeof(*dsp_code->pvt), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!dsp_code->pvt)
+	if (!dsp_code->pvt) {
+		release_firmware(firmware);
 		return HPI_ERROR_MEMORY_ALLOC;
+	}
 
 	dsp_code->pvt->dev = dev;
 	dsp_code->pvt->firmware = firmware;
-- 
1.7.6


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