linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Check for errors before kfree

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Message-Id: <1443791857-7837-1-git-send-email-csgorentla@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri,  2 Oct 2015 18:47:35 +0530
From:	Chandra S Gorentla <csgorentla@...il.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	johnny.kim@...el.com, rachel.kim@...el.com, chris.park@...el.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
	Chandra S Gorentla <csgorentla@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Check for errors before kfree

During the clean-up of the function, it is need to check if
errors occurred, not the memory pointer.

Signed-off-by: Chandra S Gorentla <csgorentla@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
index d5ebd6d..1b73b63 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ int wilc_mq_send(WILC_MsgQueueHandle *pHandle,
 
 ERRORHANDLER:
 	/* error occured, free any allocations */
-	if (pstrMessage) {
+	if (result) {
 		kfree(pstrMessage->pvBuffer);
 		kfree(pstrMessage);
 	}
-- 
2.1.4

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