Re: [PATCH net] cosa: Add missing kfree in error path of cosa_write
From: Jan Kasprzak
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 11:43:37 EST
Wang Hai wrote:
: If memory allocation for 'kbuf' succeed, cosa_write() doesn't have a
: corresponding kfree() in exception handling. Thus add kfree() for this
: function implementation.
Acked-By: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looks correct, thanks.
That said, COSA is an ancient ISA bus device designed in late 1990s,
I doubt anybody is still using it. I still do have one or two of these
cards myself, but no computer with ISA bus to use them.
-Yenya
:
: Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
: Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
: Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx>
: ---
: drivers/net/wan/cosa.c | 1 +
: 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
:
: diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
: index f8aed0696d77..2369ca250cd6 100644
: --- a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
: +++ b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
: @@ -889,6 +889,7 @@ static ssize_t cosa_write(struct file *file,
: chan->tx_status = 1;
: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cosa->lock, flags);
: up(&chan->wsem);
: + kfree(kbuf);
: return -ERESTARTSYS;
: }
: }
: --
: 2.17.1
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