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Message-Id: <1444389093-10309-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 12:11:33 +0100
From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To: Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@...el.com>,
Rachel Kim <rachel.kim@...el.com>,
Dean Lee <dean.lee@...el.com>,
Chris Park <chris.park@...el.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: fix memory leak on mgmt_tx on error return path
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Static analysis with cppcheck found the following memory leak:
[drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c:255]: (error) Memory leak: mgmt_tx
Free mgmt_tx on the error return path when mgmt_tx->buff fails to be
allocated.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c
index b8d7d04..f35d6ba 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ static int mon_mgmt_tx(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf, size_t len)
mgmt_tx->buff = kmalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (mgmt_tx->buff == NULL) {
PRINT_ER("Failed to allocate memory for mgmt_tx buff\n");
+ kfree(mgmt_tx);
return WILC_FAIL;
}
--
2.5.0
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