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> --- net/9p/trans_fd.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/9p/trans_fd.c b/net/9p/trans_fd.c index cdf137a..8c92425 100644 --- a/net/9p/trans_fd.c +++ b/net/9p/trans_fd.c @@ -908,8 +908,10 @@ static struct p9_req *p9_send_request(struct p9_conn *m, else n = p9_mux_get_tag(m); - if (n < 0) + if (n < 0) { + kfree(req); return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + } p9_set_tag(tc, n); -- 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
