> -----Original Message----- > From: devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:devel- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andre Bartke > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:46 PM > To: gregkh@xxxxxxx > Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Andre Bartke; Haiyang Zhang; linux- > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [PATCH] staging/hv: Fix memory leak of storvsc_dev_add() > > stor_device is not freed in storvsc_dev_add() > causing a memory leak in case of an allocation error. > > Signed-off-by: Andre Bartke <andre.bartke@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c > index 06cd327..92b44f4 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c > @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ int storvsc_dev_add(struct hv_device *device, > device_info->target_id = stor_device->target_id; > > cleanup: > + free_stor_device(stor_device); > return ret; Was this patch tested? Even the normal path falls through the cleanup label and obviously you should not be freeing the stor_device in that case. I have patches queued up to cleanup some of the unnecessary labels and meaningless return values that I will be sending soon. Regards, K. Y _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
