[2.6.22.y] {05/17} - cciss-fix_memory_leak - series for stable kernel

From: Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 18:15:53 EST


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Thanks,
Oliver
commit 4ae1b4aac1727a7d3633b932666e2fc459a7ff42
Author: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jul 31 00:39:39 2007 -0700

From f2912a1223c0917a7b4e054f18086209137891ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Subject: [PATCH] cciss: fix memory leak

There's a memory leak in the cciss driver.

in alloc_cciss_hba() we may leak sizeof(ctlr_info_t) bytes if a
call to alloc_disk(1 << NWD_SHIFT) fails.
This patch should fix the issue.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index 559497a..355fc17 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -3226,12 +3226,15 @@ static int alloc_cciss_hba(void)
for (i = 0; i < MAX_CTLR; i++) {
if (!hba[i]) {
ctlr_info_t *p;
+
p = kzalloc(sizeof(ctlr_info_t), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
goto Enomem;
p->gendisk[0] = alloc_disk(1 << NWD_SHIFT);
- if (!p->gendisk[0])
+ if (!p->gendisk[0]) {
+ kfree(p);
goto Enomem;
+ }
hba[i] = p;
return i;
}