The patch titled drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c: introduce missing kfree has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-usb-host-xhci-memc-introduce-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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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/usb/host/xhci-mem.c: introduce missing kfree From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; statement S; expression E; identifier f,f1,l; position p1,p2; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...x...+> } ( x->f1 = E | (x->f1 == NULL || ...) | f(...,x->f1,...) ) ...> ( return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\); | return@p2 ...; ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c~drivers-usb-host-xhci-memc-introduce-missing-kfree drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c~drivers-usb-host-xhci-memc-introduce-missing-kfree +++ a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c @@ -779,14 +779,17 @@ struct xhci_command *xhci_alloc_command( command->in_ctx = xhci_alloc_container_ctx(xhci, XHCI_CTX_TYPE_INPUT, mem_flags); - if (!command->in_ctx) + if (!command->in_ctx) { + kfree(command); return NULL; + } if (allocate_completion) { command->completion = kzalloc(sizeof(struct completion), mem_flags); if (!command->completion) { xhci_free_container_ctx(xhci, command->in_ctx); + kfree(command); return NULL; } init_completion(command->completion); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-media-video-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.patch drivers-message-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-block-dac960c-use-dac960_v2_controller.patch drivers-cpuidle-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-mmc-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-video-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-char-ipmi-use-kcs_idle_state.patch drivers-media-video-introduce-missing-kfree.patch drivers-edac-introduce-missing-kfree.patch drivers-usb-host-xhci-memc-introduce-missing-kfree.patch drivers-usb-host-ehci-omapc-introduce-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