The patch titled
fix mem-leak in sidewinder driver
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fix-mem-leak-in-sidewinder-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>
In sw_connect we leak 'buf' and 'idbuf' when we do not leave via one of the
fail* labels. This was spotted by the coverity checker. This patch fixes
the memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/joystick/sidewinder.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/input/joystick/sidewinder.c~fix-mem-leak-in-sidewinder-driver drivers/input/joystick/sidewinder.c
--- devel/drivers/input/joystick/sidewinder.c~fix-mem-leak-in-sidewinder-driver 2006-05-10 21:55:46.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/input/joystick/sidewinder.c 2006-05-10 21:55:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -776,6 +776,8 @@ static int sw_connect(struct gameport *g
goto fail4;
}
+ kfree(buf);
+ kfree(idbuf);
return 0;
fail4: input_free_device(sw->dev[i]);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
fix-mem-leak-in-sidewinder-driver.patch
git-mtd.patch
git-scsi-rc-fixes.patch
small-whitespace-cleanup-for-qlogic-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
binfnt_elf-remove-more-casts.patch
debug-shared-irqs.patch
remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-fs.patch
remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-kernel.patch
remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-drivers.patch
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