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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:01:15 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com> To: "Jesper Juhl" <jj@...osbits.net> cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Alwin Beukers" <alwin@...adcom.com>, "Pieter-Paul Giesberts" <pieterpg@...adcom.com>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcm80211: Don't leak 'vbuffer' in brcmf_sdbrcm_write_vars() On 01/08/2012 11:41 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote: > If the memory allocation 'nvram_ularray = kmalloc(varsize, > GFP_ATOMIC);' fails we'll leak the memory allocated to 'vbuffer' when > we return -ENOMEM from the function. > > This patch resolves the leak by kfree()'ing the allocated memory > before the return. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> Nice catch. Thanks. Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com> Gr. AvS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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