The patch titled
memory leak fix for whiteheat driver
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memory-leak-fix-for-whiteheat-driver.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
We may return from drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c::whiteheat_attach()
without freeing `result' if we leave via the no_firmware: label.
Spotted by the coverity checker as #670
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c~memory-leak-fix-for-whiteheat-driver drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c
--- devel/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c~memory-leak-fix-for-whiteheat-driver 2006-04-23 16:04:28.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c 2006-04-23 16:04:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ no_firmware:
err("%s: Unable to retrieve firmware version, try replugging\n", serial->type->description);
err("%s: If the firmware is not running (status led not blinking)\n", serial->type->description);
err("%s: please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\n", serial->type->description);
+ kfree(result);
return -ENODEV;
no_command_private:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-mtd.patch
small-whitespace-cleanup-for-qlogic-driver.patch
memory-leak-fix-for-whiteheat-driver.patch
reduce-nr-of-ptr-derefs-in-fs-jffs2-summaryc.patch
oss-cs46xx-cleanup-and-tiny-bugfix.patch
i4l-memory-leak-fix-for-sc_ioctl.patch
isdn-unsafe-interaction-between-isdn_write-and-isdn_writebuf_stub.patch
binfmt_elf-codingstyle-cleanup-and-remove-some-pointless-casts.patch
debug-shared-irqs.patch
remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-fs.patch
remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-arch.patch
remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-kernel.patch
remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-drivers.patch
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