From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kzalloc 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,f1,l; position p1,p2; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...x...+> } ( x->f1 = E | (x->f1 == NULL || ...) | f(...,x->f1,...) ) ...> ( 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> --- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index 5cf405b..4ced7c3 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c @@ -446,8 +446,10 @@ static struct btrfs_fs_devices *clone_fs_devices(struct btrfs_fs_devices *orig) goto error; device->name = kstrdup(orig_dev->name, GFP_NOFS); - if (!device->name) + if (!device->name) { + kfree(device); goto error; + } device->devid = orig_dev->devid; device->work.func = pending_bios_fn; -- 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
