Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20221202 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: Thu Dec 1 17:29:13 2022 +0100 034ae28b56f1 ("wifi: mt76: mt7921: introduce remain_on_channel support") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1527806: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK) drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c:178 in mt7921_check_offload_capability() 172 ret = request_firmware(&fw, fw_wm, dev); 173 if (ret) 174 return ret; 175 176 if (!fw || !fw->data || fw->size < sizeof(*hdr)) { 177 dev_err(dev, "Invalid firmware\n"); vvv CID 1527806: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK) vvv Variable "fw" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to. 178 return -EINVAL; 179 } 180 181 data = fw->data; 182 hdr = (const void *)(fw->data + fw->size - sizeof(*hdr)); 183 If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527806 ("Resource leaks") Fixes: 034ae28b56f1 ("wifi: mt76: mt7921: introduce remain_on_channel support") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot