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,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> Acked-by: Erik Andren <erik.andren@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c~drivers-media-video-gspca-introduce-missing-kfree drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c --- a/drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c~drivers-media-video-gspca-introduce-missing-kfree +++ a/drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c @@ -178,8 +178,10 @@ sensor_found: sens_priv->settings = kmalloc(sizeof(s32)*ARRAY_SIZE(s5k83a_ctrls), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!sens_priv->settings) + if (!sens_priv->settings) { + kfree(sens_priv); return -ENOMEM; + } sd->gspca_dev.cam.cam_mode = s5k83a_modes; sd->gspca_dev.cam.nmodes = ARRAY_SIZE(s5k83a_modes); _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
