The patch titled drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c: add missing kfree has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-isdn-sc-ioctlc-add-missing-kfree.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c: add missing kfree From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> spid has been allocated in this function and so should be freed before leaving it, as in the other error handling cases. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) @r exists@ expression E,E1; statement S; position p1,p2,p3; @@ E =@p1 \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...) ... when != E = E1 if (E == NULL || ...) S ... when != E = E1 if@p2 (...) { ... when != kfree(E) } ... when != E = E1 kfree@p3(E); @forall@ position r.p2; expression r.E; int E1 != 0; @@ * if@p2 (...) { ... when != kfree(E) when strict return E1; } Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c~drivers-isdn-sc-ioctlc-add-missing-kfree drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c --- a/drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c~drivers-isdn-sc-ioctlc-add-missing-kfree +++ a/drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c @@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int sc_ioctl(int card, scs_ioctl *data) */ if (copy_from_user(spid, data->dataptr, SCIOC_SPIDSIZE)) { kfree(rcvmsg); + kfree(spid); return -EFAULT; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-isdn-sc-ioctlc-add-missing-kfree.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html