linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak in bcm_char

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Message-ID: <20120904011909.GA4010@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2012 21:19:10 -0400
From:	Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@...il.com>
To:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>, klmckinney1@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak in
 bcm_char_ioctl()

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:02:23PM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
> 
> psFwInfo has been allocated in this function and should be
> freed before leaving from the error handling cases.
> 
> spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
> index cf411d1..3d02c2e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c

Acked-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@...il.com>
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