Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: fix memory leak in comedi_bond.c

From: Ian Abbott
Date: Mon Feb 10 2014 - 07:52:59 EST


On 2014-02-08 05:02, Chase Southwood wrote:
We allocate bdev and then krealloc the devs pointer in order to add bdev
at the end of the devpriv->devs array list. But if for some reason this
krealloc fails, we need to free bdev before returning an error otherwise
this memory is leaked.

Signed-off-by: Chase Southwood <chase.southwood@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
index 51a59e5..406aedb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ static int do_dev_config(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
if (!devs) {
dev_err(dev->class_dev,
"Could not allocate memory. Out of memory?\n");
+ kfree(bdev);
return -ENOMEM;
}
devpriv->devs = devs;


Acked-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>

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