Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c: fix 2 memory leaks

[Manu Abraham]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The Coverity checker spotted that thre was a memory leak if the second 
> or third kmalloc() failed.
>
> Besides this, I've also consolidated the three error handlings into one.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
>  drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c |   19 +++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c.old	2006-03-11 14:36:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c	2006-03-11 15:28:26.000000000 +0100
> @@ -473,18 +473,17 @@ static int dst_ca_ioctl(struct inode *in
>  	void __user *arg = (void __user *)ioctl_arg;
>  	int result = 0;
>  
> -	if ((p_ca_message = (struct ca_msg *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_msg), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> -		dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_ERROR, 1, " Memory allocation failure");
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	}
> -	if ((p_ca_slot_info = (struct ca_slot_info *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_slot_info), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> -		dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_ERROR, 1, " Memory allocation failure");
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	}
> -	if ((p_ca_caps = (struct ca_caps *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_caps), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> +	p_ca_message = (struct ca_msg *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_msg), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	p_ca_slot_info = (struct ca_slot_info *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_slot_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	p_ca_caps = (struct ca_caps *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_caps), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +
> +	if (!p_ca_message || !p_ca_slot_info || !p_ca_caps) {
>  		dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_ERROR, 1, " Memory allocation failure");
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		result = -ENOMEM;
> +		goto free_mem_and_exit;
>  	}
> +
>  	/*	We have now only the standard ioctl's, the driver is upposed to handle internals.	*/
>  	switch (cmd) {
>  	case CA_SEND_MSG:
>
> -
>   


Yeah, it is better indeed. Would you mind if i schedule this for a 
little while later, since i have a couple of other fixes/additions as well ?


Thanks,
Manu

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