The patch titled drivers/media/video: introduce missing kfree has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-media-video-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/media/video: introduce missing kfree From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data. Similarly for usb-alloc urb. The semantic match that finds the first 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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c~drivers-media-video-introduce-missing-kfree drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c --- a/drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c~drivers-media-video-introduce-missing-kfree +++ a/drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int hdpvr_alloc_buffers(struct hdpvr_dev urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL); if (!urb) { v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "cannot allocate urb\n"); - goto exit; + goto exit_urb; } buf->urb = urb; @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ int hdpvr_alloc_buffers(struct hdpvr_dev if (!mem) { v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "cannot allocate usb transfer buffer\n"); - goto exit; + goto exit_urb_buffer; } usb_fill_bulk_urb(buf->urb, dev->udev, @@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ int hdpvr_alloc_buffers(struct hdpvr_dev list_add_tail(&buf->buff_list, &dev->free_buff_list); } return 0; +exit_urb_buffer: + usb_free_urb(urb); +exit_urb: + kfree(buf); exit: hdpvr_free_buffers(dev); return retval; _ 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