Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:41:22 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c: Cleaning up memory leak |
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 01:30:43PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: > There is a risk for memory leak in when something unexpected happens > and the function returns. > > This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck. > > Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> > --- > drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c > index 23d539d..27e0243 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c > @@ -1822,6 +1822,7 @@ static int r871x_wx_set_enc_ext(struct net_device *dev, > alg_name = "CCMP"; > break; > default: > + kfree(param);
Wat? Param isn't even allocated at this point. It gets allocated a couple lines later.
regards, dan carpenter
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