kmalloc() can fail so check whether state->internal is NULL. append_internal() can return NULL on allocation failures so check that. Also if we hit the error condition later in the function then there is a memory leak and we need to call remove_dev() to fix it. Also Oliver Endriss pointed out an additional leak that I missed in the first version of this patch. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: Fix the leak Oliver noticed. diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv090x.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv090x.c index d3362d0..41d0f0a 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv090x.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv090x.c @@ -4783,7 +4783,13 @@ struct dvb_frontend *stv090x_attach(const struct stv090x_config *config, } else { state->internal = kmalloc(sizeof(struct stv090x_internal), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!state->internal) + goto error; temp_int = append_internal(state->internal); + if (!temp_int) { + kfree(state->internal); + goto error; + } state->internal->num_used = 1; state->internal->mclk = 0; state->internal->dev_ver = 0; @@ -4796,7 +4802,7 @@ struct dvb_frontend *stv090x_attach(const struct stv090x_config *config, if (stv090x_setup(&state->frontend) < 0) { dprintk(FE_ERROR, 1, "Error setting up device"); - goto error; + goto err_remove; } } @@ -4811,6 +4817,9 @@ struct dvb_frontend *stv090x_attach(const struct stv090x_config *config, return &state->frontend; +err_remove: + remove_dev(state->internal); + kfree(state->internal); error: kfree(state); return NULL; -- 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