Hi, We may leak the storage allocated to 'state' in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c::ix2505v_attach() on error. This patch makes sure we free the allocated memory in the failure case. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ix2505v.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Compile tested only. diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c index 55f2eba..fcb173d 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c @@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ struct dvb_frontend *ix2505v_attach(struct dvb_frontend *fe, ret = ix2505v_read_status_reg(state); if (ret & 0x80) { + kfree(state); deb_i2c("%s: No IX2505V found\n", __func__); goto error; } -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- 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