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Subject[PATCH] Fix small mem leak in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver
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In drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c::ebda_rsrc_controller(), storage is
allocated with kzalloc() and assigned to 'tmp_slot'.
Then lots of stuff, like ->flag, ->supported_speed etc is set in tmp_slot.
A bit further down there's then this test :

if (!bus_info_ptr1) {
rc = -ENODEV;
goto error;
}

At this point, tmp_slot has not been assigned to anything, so when
erroring-out we want to free it, but nothing at the 'error:' label free's
'tmp_slot' - and we can't really free 'tmp_slot' at 'error:' since we may
jump to that label later when 'tmp_slot' *has* been used and we do not
want it freed. So, the only sane option left seems to be to
kfree(tmp_slot) just before jumping to the 'error:' label in the one place
where this is what actually makes sense. The following patch does just
that and thus kills off a tiny potential memory leak.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

ibmphp_ebda.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c
index 600ed7b..bbccde9 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c
@@ -963,6 +963,7 @@ static int __init ebda_rsrc_controller (void)

bus_info_ptr1 = ibmphp_find_same_bus_num (hpc_ptr->slots[index].slot_bus_num);
if (!bus_info_ptr1) {
+ kfree(tmp_slot);
rc = -ENODEV;
goto error;
}



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