On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:41:14PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I see there is a memleak in driver for the Specialix SX series cards
> on error exit path in sx_fw_ioctl() (both in 2.4 and 2.5).
> See the patch.
> Found with help of smatch + unfree script.
...
> + kfree (tmp);
> return -EFAULT;
Hi Oleg,
You're right. I left it like this because "root can always mess up the
machine". But once fixed, I agree that it's better this way.
Roger.
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