On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 02:40:28PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:30:55 +0200
>
> Add a jump target so that a bit of exception handling can be better
> reused at the end of this function.
>
> This refactoring might fix also an error situation where the
> function "kfree" was not called after a software failure
> was noticed in two cases.
>
No. It doesn't fix a leak, it introduces a double free. If
smscore_register_device() succeeds then mdev is freed when we call
smsusb_term_device(intf); The call tree is:
smsusb_term_device()
-> smscore_unregister_device()
-> smscore_notify_clients()
-> smsdvb_onremove()
-> smsdvb_unregister_client()
-> smsdvb_media_device_unregister()
-> kfree(coredev->media_dev);
regards,
dan carpenter
