[PATCH] staging: wilc1000: fix freeing of ERR_PTR
From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Fri Sep 04 2015 - 06:04:31 EST
If memdup_user() fails then it will return the error code in ERR_PTR. We
were checking it with IS_ERR but then again trying to free it on the
error path.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
index c90c459..020ed03 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
@@ -2116,10 +2116,8 @@ int mac_ioctl(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *req, int cmd)
if (size && wrq->u.data.pointer) {
buff = memdup_user(wrq->u.data.pointer, wrq->u.data.length);
- if (IS_ERR(buff)) {
- s32Error = PTR_ERR(buff);
- goto done;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(buff))
+ return PTR_ERR(buff);
if (strncasecmp(buff, "RSSI", length) == 0) {
--
1.9.1
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