The patch titled
Memory leak in drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memory-leak-in-drivers-usb-serial-airprimec.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Memory leak in drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c
From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
the commit
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=5dda171202f94127e49c12daf780cdae1b4e668b
added a memory leak. In case we cant allocate an urb, we dont free the
buffer and leak it. Coverity id #1438
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andy Gay <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c~memory-leak-in-drivers-usb-serial-airprimec drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c~memory-leak-in-drivers-usb-serial-airprimec
+++ a/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ static int airprime_open(struct usb_seri
}
urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!urb) {
+ kfree(buffer);
dev_err(&port->dev, "%s - no more urbs?\n",
__FUNCTION__);
result = -ENOMEM;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from snakebyte@xxxxxx are
origin.patch
reiserfs-null-pointer-dereferencing-in-reiserfs_read_bitmap_block.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-video-intelfb-intelfbhwc.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-net-depcac.patch
off-by-one-in-arch-ppc-platforms-mpc8.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-scsi-sgc.patch
dereference-in-drivers-scsi-lpfc-lpfc_ctc.patch
memory-leak-in-drivers-usb-serial-airprimec.patch
possible-dereference-in-drivers-net-wireless-zd1201c.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-fs-fat-inodec.patch
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