Re: [PATCH] mtd: fix memory leak in block2mtd_setup()

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Sat May 13 2006 - 20:43:22 EST


On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 01:42 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> There's a mem leak in drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c::block2mtd_setup()
>
> We can leak 'name' allocated with kmalloc in 'parse_name' if leave via
> the 'parse_err' macro since it contains a return but doesn't do any
> freeing.
>
> Spotted by coverity checker as bug 615.

Applied; thanks.

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dwmw2

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