[PATCH] Fix a memory leak in pdaudiocf

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sat May 13 2006 - 17:43:10 EST


There's a potential memory leak in
sound/pcmcia/pdaudiocf/pdaudiocf.c::pdacf_config()

If we leave via one of the *failed: labels we may leak 'parse', so add a
kfree(parse) to the end of the function and also make sure to set 'parse'
to NULL after the kfree() call a little further up so we don't do a
double-free of the pointer if we hit one of the *failed: labels after the
first kfree().

Since I don't have the hardware I can't test the patch beyond making sure
it compiles cleanly, but I feel pretty confident that it is correct.

Please consider for inclusion.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
---

sound/pcmcia/pdaudiocf/pdaudiocf.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2-orig/sound/pcmcia/pdaudiocf/pdaudiocf.c 2006-05-13 21:28:55.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2/sound/pcmcia/pdaudiocf/pdaudiocf.c 2006-05-13 23:27:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static int pdacf_config(struct pcmcia_de

snd_printdd(KERN_DEBUG "pdacf_config called\n");
parse = kmalloc(sizeof(*parse), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (! parse) {
+ if (!parse) {
snd_printk(KERN_ERR "pdacf_config: cannot allocate\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ static int pdacf_config(struct pcmcia_de
link->conf.ConfigBase = parse->config.base;
link->conf.ConfigIndex = 0x5;
kfree(parse);
+ parse = NULL;

CS_CHECK(RequestIO, pcmcia_request_io(link, &link->io));
CS_CHECK(RequestIRQ, pcmcia_request_irq(link, &link->irq));
@@ -257,6 +258,7 @@ cs_failed:
cs_error(link, last_fn, last_ret);
failed:
pcmcia_disable_device(link);
+ kfree(parse);
return -ENODEV;
}






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