netdev - Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: fix memory leak in ath6kl_fwlog_block

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Message-ID: <4F8BB735.4040409@qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:07:49 +0300
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
CC:	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	ath6kl-devel <ath6kl-devel@...lcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: fix memory leak in ath6kl_fwlog_block_read()

On 04/11/2012 11:41 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> If, in
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/debug.c::ath6kl_fwlog_block_read(),
> the call to wait_for_completion_interruptible() returns -ERESTARTSYS
> then we'll return without freeing the (as yet unused) memory we
> allocated for 'buf' - thus leaking it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Thanks, applied to ath6kl.git.

Kalle
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