linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] staging: vt6656: don't leak 'param' in vt6656_hostap

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1207262338250.14949@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:43:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] staging: vt6656: don't leak 'param' in vt6656_hostap_ioctl()
 when returning -EOPNOTSUPP

Don't return -EOPNOTSUPP directly in switch case's since it'll leak
the memory allocated to 'param' when that variable goes out of scope
without having been assigned to anything.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
index 51b5adf..bc49611 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
@@ -789,8 +789,8 @@ int vt6656_hostap_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct iw_point *p)
 		break;
 	case VIAWGET_HOSTAPD_SET_ASSOC_AP_ADDR:
 	    DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "VIAWGET_HOSTAPD_SET_ASSOC_AP_ADDR \n");
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-		break;
+		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto out;
 	case VIAWGET_HOSTAPD_FLUSH:
 	    DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "VIAWGET_HOSTAPD_FLUSH \n");
         spin_lock_irq(&pDevice->lock);
@@ -840,13 +840,13 @@ int vt6656_hostap_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct iw_point *p)
 
 	case VIAWGET_HOSTAPD_STA_CLEAR_STATS:
 	    DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "VIAWGET_HOSTAPD_STA_CLEAR_STATS \n");
-	    return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
+	    ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	    goto out;
 	default:
 	    DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "vt6656_hostap_ioctl: unknown cmd=%d\n",
 		       (int)param->cmd);
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-		break;
+		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 
-- 
1.7.11.3


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