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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c: fix 2 memory leaks
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 05:12:13PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 07:53:34PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, it is better indeed. Would you mind if i schedule this for a
>>> little while later, since i have a couple of other fixes/additions as well ?
>>>
>> There's no need to hurry since the whole problem is only a small memory
>> leak in a very unlikely case.
>>
>
> But when you'll apply it, please used the improved version below (based
> on a suggestion by Ingo Oeser).
>
>

Ok, i will apply the same thing.


> cu
> Adrian
>
>

Thanks,
Manu

> The Coverity checker spotted that thre was a memory leak if the second
> or third kmalloc() failed.
>
> Besides this, I've also consolidated the three error handlings into one
> and removed the unneeded casts.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
>
> ---
>
> drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c | 19 +++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c.old 2006-03-11 14:36:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c 2006-03-11 15:28:26.000000000 +0100
> @@ -473,18 +473,17 @@ static int dst_ca_ioctl(struct inode *in
> void __user *arg = (void __user *)ioctl_arg;
> int result = 0;
>
> - if ((p_ca_message = (struct ca_msg *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_msg), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> - dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_ERROR, 1, " Memory allocation failure");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
> - if ((p_ca_slot_info = (struct ca_slot_info *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_slot_info), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> - dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_ERROR, 1, " Memory allocation failure");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
> - if ((p_ca_caps = (struct ca_caps *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_caps), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> + p_ca_message = kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_msg), GFP_KERNEL);
> + p_ca_slot_info = kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_slot_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + p_ca_caps = kmalloc(sizeof (struct ca_caps), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +
> + if (!p_ca_message || !p_ca_slot_info || !p_ca_caps) {
> dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_ERROR, 1, " Memory allocation failure");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + result = -ENOMEM;
> + goto free_mem_and_exit;
> }
> +
> /* We have now only the standard ioctl's, the driver is upposed to handle internals. */
> switch (cmd) {
> case CA_SEND_MSG:
>
>
>

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