On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 16:54 +0800, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> > > Error handling code following a kzalloc 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/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c > index 7707a26..c2106d0 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c > @@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ static ssize_t iwl_dbgfs_nvm_read(struct file *file, > ptr = priv->eeprom; > if (!ptr) { > IWL_ERR(priv, "Invalid EEPROM/OTP memory\n"); > + kfree(buf); > return -ENOMEM; > } > pos += scnprintf(buf + pos, buf_size - pos, "NVM Type: %s\n", Probably moving !priv->eeprom check prior to buf kzalloc is better. Thanks, -yi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html