On 01/02/2015 12:17 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
The driver allocates memory to store the firmware image; however, that
memory is never released. The kmemleak facility was used to find this
error.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c
index 3b28754..a5b7fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ int rtl88eu_download_fw(struct adapter *adapt)
_rtl88e_enable_fw_download(adapt, false);
err = _rtl88e_fw_free_to_go(adapt);
+ kfree(pfwdata);
return err;
}
Greg,
Please drop this patch. Unfortunately, further testing showed that the kfree()
call is in the wrong place. I will send V2 shortly.
Thanks,
Larry
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