From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; statement S; expression E; identifier f,l; position p1,p2; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ ( if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S | x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S ) <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...x...+> } x->f = E ...> ( return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\); | return@p2 ...; ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c b/arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c index 529462c..7916512 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c @@ -420,8 +420,10 @@ tioca_dma_mapped(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 paddr, size_t req_size) entry = find_next_zero_bit(map, mapsize, last_entry); } - if (entry > mapsize) + if (entry > mapsize) { + kfree(ca_dmamap); goto map_return; + } for (i = 0; i < entries; i++) set_bit(entry + i, map); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html