The patch titled drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c: introduce missing kfree has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-scsi-arcmsr-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/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c: introduce missing kfree From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds the 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: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c~drivers-scsi-arcmsr-introduce-missing-kfree drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c --- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c~drivers-scsi-arcmsr-introduce-missing-kfree +++ a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c @@ -1526,6 +1526,7 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc if (!acb->fw_state) { pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.ReturnCode = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_RETURNCODE_BUS_HANG_ON; + kfree(ver_addr); goto message_out; } @@ -1578,6 +1579,7 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc if (!acb->fw_state) { pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.ReturnCode = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_RETURNCODE_BUS_HANG_ON; + kfree(ver_addr); goto message_out; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch fs-btrfs-use-memdup_user.patch fs-btrfs-use-err_cast.patch drivers-dma-eliminate-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch drivers-media-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-media-video-pvrusb2-add-missing-mutex_unlock.patch drivers-video-omap2-displays-add-missing-mutex_unlock.patch arch-ia64-kvm-add-missing-spin_unlock.patch drivers-ide-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-mfd-kzalloc-doesnt-return-err_ptr.patch fs-ubifs-use-err_cast.patch fs-ocfs2-dlm-add-missing-spin_unlock.patch drivers-s390-net-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.patch drivers-message-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc.patch drivers-scsi-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-block-use-memdup_user.patch arch-sparc-kernel-eliminate-what-looks-like-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-staging-vme-bridges-add-missing-unlocks.patch drivers-staging-eliminate-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch drivers-usb-gadget-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-usb-serial-eliminate-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch mm-use-memdup_user.patch mm-use-err_cast.patch drivers-message-i2o-exec-osmc-add-missing-mutex_unlock.patch drivers-char-n_gsmc-add-missing-spin_unlock_irqrestore.patch drivers-mfd-introduce-missing-kfree.patch drivers-scsi-arcmsr-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