If we hit the default case in the switch statement in wpa_ioctl() we'll leak the memory allocated to 'param' when the variable goes out of scope without having been assigned to anything. This patch fixes the leak by kfree()'ing the memory before we return from the function. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c index 9d14868..5435e82 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c @@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ int wpa_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct iw_point *p) default: DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "wpa_ioctl: unknown cmd=%d\n", param->cmd); + kfree(param); return -EOPNOTSUPP; } -- 1.7.8.3 -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
