Freeing netdev without free_netdev() leads to net, tx leaks. I might lead to dereferencing freed pointer. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) @@ struct net_device* dev; @@ -kfree(dev) +free_netdev(dev) --- drivers/net/sgiseeq.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c b/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c index cc4bd8c..9265315 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c +++ b/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int __devinit sgiseeq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) err_out_free_page: free_page((unsigned long) sp->srings); err_out_free_dev: - kfree(dev); + free_netdev(dev); err_out: return err; -- 1.7.0.4 -- 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
