We returned a freed variable on some error paths when the intent was to return a NULL. Part of the reason this was missed was that the code was confusing because it had too many gotos so I removed them and simplified the flow a bit. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/core.c b/net/nfc/nci/core.c index 895e5fd..06330cd 100644 --- a/net/nfc/nci/core.c +++ b/net/nfc/nci/core.c @@ -490,19 +490,19 @@ struct nci_dev *nci_allocate_device(struct nci_ops *ops, int tx_headroom, int tx_tailroom) { - struct nci_dev *ndev = NULL; + struct nci_dev *ndev; nfc_dbg("entry, supported_protocols 0x%x", supported_protocols); if (!ops->open || !ops->close || !ops->send) - goto exit; + return NULL; if (!supported_protocols) - goto exit; + return NULL; ndev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nci_dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ndev) - goto exit; + return NULL; ndev->ops = ops; ndev->tx_headroom = tx_headroom; @@ -517,13 +517,11 @@ struct nci_dev *nci_allocate_device(struct nci_ops *ops, nfc_set_drvdata(ndev->nfc_dev, ndev); - goto exit; + return ndev; free_exit: kfree(ndev); - -exit: - return ndev; + return NULL; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(nci_allocate_device); -- 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