Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:23:15 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [08/53] Net, libertas: Resolve memory leak in if_spi_host_to_card() |
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3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
commit fe09b32a4361bea44169b2063e8c867cabb6a8ba upstream.
If we hit the default case in the switch in if_spi_host_to_card() we'll leak the memory we allocated for 'packet'. This patch resolves the leak by freeing the allocated memory in that case.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c @@ -997,6 +997,7 @@ static int if_spi_host_to_card(struct lb spin_unlock_irqrestore(&card->buffer_lock, flags); break; default: + kfree(packet); netdev_err(priv->dev, "can't transfer buffer of type %d\n", type); err = -EINVAL;
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