This patch fixes a memory error in ioctl, IOCTL_BCM_NVM_WRITE. While copying data to user space, if an error occurs, pReadData is freed. Then, at the end of the ioctl, pReadData was being freed again. Signed-off-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c index 72a699c..ad1cc55 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c @@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ cntrlEnd: if (copy_to_user(stNVMReadWrite.pBuffer, pReadData, stNVMReadWrite.uiNumBytes)) { kfree(pReadData); - Status = -EFAULT; + return -EFAULT; } } else { down(&Adapter->NVMRdmWrmLock); -- 1.7.4.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel