On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:30:26PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> There are few functions where we need to free previously allocated memory
> when kmalloc fails. Else it may lead to memory leakage.
> In _init_cmd_priv() and _r8712_init_xmit_priv(),in few places we are not
> freeing previously allocated memory when kmalloc fails.
> This patch will address it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Souptick joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c | 5 ++++-
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c
> index b7ee5e6..04638f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_cmd.c
> @@ -72,8 +72,11 @@ static sint _init_cmd_priv(struct cmd_priv *pcmdpriv)
> ((addr_t)(pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf) &
> (CMDBUFF_ALIGN_SZ - 1));
> pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf = kmalloc(MAX_RSPSZ + 4, GFP_ATOMIC);
> - if (!pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf)
> + if (!pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf) {
> + kfree(pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf);
> + pcmdpriv->cmd_allocated_buf = NULL;
Why do you have to set this to NULL?
> return _FAIL;
> + }
> pcmdpriv->rsp_buf = pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf + 4 -
> ((addr_t)(pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf) & 3);
> pcmdpriv->cmd_issued_cnt = 0;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c
> index be38364..484d2f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c
> @@ -128,8 +128,11 @@ sint _r8712_init_xmit_priv(struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv,
> _init_queue(&pxmitpriv->pending_xmitbuf_queue);
> pxmitpriv->pallocated_xmitbuf = kmalloc(NR_XMITBUFF * sizeof(struct xmit_buf) + 4,
> GFP_ATOMIC);
> - if (!pxmitpriv->pallocated_xmitbuf)
> + if (!pxmitpriv->pallocated_xmitbuf) {
> + kfree(pxmitpriv->pallocated_frame_buf);
> + pxmitpriv->pallocated_frame_buf = NULL;
Same here, why set to NULL? What code relies on this?
thanks,
greg k-h
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