Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix a memory leak in b43_bus_dev_ssb_init

From: Michael BÃsch
Date: Mon Jan 11 2016 - 11:44:37 EST


On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:37:36 +0800
Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The memory allocated by kzalloc in b43_bus_dev_ssb_init is not freed.
> This patch fixes the bug by adding kfree in b43_ssb_remove.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
> index ec013fb..6d251a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
> @@ -5798,6 +5798,7 @@ static void b43_ssb_remove(struct ssb_device *sdev)
>
> b43_leds_unregister(wl);
> b43_wireless_exit(dev, wl);
> + kfree(dev);
> }
>
> static struct ssb_driver b43_ssb_driver = {



Nice catch.
The kfree is also missing in b43_bcma_remove().
And also in the error paths of b43_bcma_probe().

Can you please extend the patch to cover these, too?

--
Michael

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