Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Fix a memory leak in pdaudiocf

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 13 May 2006 23:44:25 +0200,
Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> 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.

This bug was already fixed in a different way on ALSA HG repo.

thanks,

Takashi
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