Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: rtllib_module: add free for error exit

[Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/27/21 11:07, Peiwei Hu wrote:
> Original source code of alloc_rtllib returns directly in
> error, without freeing variable dev.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peiwei Hu <jlu.hpw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c
> index 64d9feee1f39..18d898714c5c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_rtllib(int sizeof_priv)
>   
>   	ieee->pHTInfo = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rt_hi_throughput), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!ieee->pHTInfo)
> -		return NULL;
> +		goto failed;
>   
>   	HTUpdateDefaultSetting(ieee);
>   	HTInitializeHTInfo(ieee);


This one is already fixed in staging-testing branch. See commit 
e730cd57ac2dfe94bca0f14a3be8e1b21de41a9c


With regards,
Pavel Skripkin