[PATCH] Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak in bcm_char_ioctl()

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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;
 		}


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