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Subject[PATCH] Sound, 6fire: Don't leak firmware in error path
One of the error paths in 
sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c::usb6fire_fw_ezusb_upload() neglects to free
the memory allocated for the firmware before returning, thus leaking the
memory.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
firmware.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

patch against 3.0-rc1
compile tested only

diff --git a/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c b/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c
index d47beff..a91719d 100644
--- a/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c
+++ b/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ static int usb6fire_fw_ezusb_upload(
ret = usb6fire_fw_ihex_init(fw, rec);
if (ret < 0) {
kfree(rec);
+ release_firmware(fw);
snd_printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "error validating ezusb "
"firmware %s.\n", fwname);
return ret;

--
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> http://www.chaosbits.net/
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