From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> psFwInfo has been allocated in this function and should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases. spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem. (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c index cf411d1..3d02c2e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c @@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ cntrlEnd: if (copy_from_user(psFwInfo, IoBuffer.InputBuffer, IoBuffer.InputLength)) { up(&Adapter->fw_download_sema); + kfree(psFwInfo); return -EFAULT; } @@ -829,6 +830,7 @@ cntrlEnd: BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_PRINTK, 0, 0, "Something else is wrong %lu\n", psFwInfo->u32FirmwareLength); up(&Adapter->fw_download_sema); + kfree(psFwInfo); Status = -EINVAL; return Status; } _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel