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Message-Id: <1376930196-21785-2-git-send-email-andi@etezian.org>
Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:36:36 +0200
From:	Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
To:	josh.h.morris@...ibm.com, pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andi@...zian.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] rsxx: core: fix memory leak

Free 'buf' before returning.

the 'rsxx_cram_write()' function returns twice without freeing
the allocated buffer 'buf' causing a possible memory leak.

This issue has been reported by scan.coverity.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
---
 drivers/block/rsxx/core.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c b/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c
index 6e85e21..fa3740b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c
+++ b/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c
@@ -224,19 +224,20 @@ static ssize_t rsxx_cram_write(struct file *fp, const char __user *ubuf,
 
 	st = copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, cnt);
 	if (st)
-		return st;
+		goto exit;
 
 	info->f_pos = (u32)*ppos + info->offset;
 
 	st = rsxx_creg_write(card, CREG_ADD_CRAM + info->f_pos, cnt, buf, 1);
 	if (st)
-		return st;
+		goto exit;
 
 	info->offset += cnt;
 
+exit:
 	kfree(buf);
 
-	return cnt;
+	return st ? st : cnt;
 }
 
 static int rsxx_cram_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
-- 
1.8.4.rc2

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