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> --- drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c index ffa5479..a94fb9d 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c @@ -1526,6 +1526,7 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struct AdapterControlBlock *acb, if (!acb->fw_state) { pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.ReturnCode = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_RETURNCODE_BUS_HANG_ON; + kfree(ver_addr); goto message_out; } @@ -1578,6 +1579,7 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struct AdapterControlBlock *acb, if (!acb->fw_state) { pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.ReturnCode = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_RETURNCODE_BUS_HANG_ON; + kfree(ver_addr); goto message_out; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html