In routine c2h_wk_callback(() following a kmalloc() call, the error recovery is flawed. If the kmalloc() returns a pointer that is not NULL, and the following c2h_evt_read() fails, the code will leak that buffer. If the kmalloc() fails, a NULL dereference will occur in the following code. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c index c3a9051ca10c..238ae79f4141 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c @@ -1908,8 +1908,12 @@ static void c2h_wk_callback(struct work_struct *work) c2h_evt = kmalloc(16, GFP_KERNEL); if (c2h_evt) { /* This C2H event is not read, read & clear now */ - if (c2h_evt_read(adapter, (u8 *)c2h_evt) != _SUCCESS) + if (c2h_evt_read(adapter, (u8 *)c2h_evt) != _SUCCESS) { + kfree(c2h_evt); continue; + } + } else { + return; } } -- 2.32.0