[PATCH] HID: fix memory leak in hidraw_release

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Jun 24 2008 - 08:45:27 EST


[ Upstream commit 4db1c62c9991e62b441672db7f227e722776adc4 ]

hidraw_release() forgot to free the linked list structure, causing memory
leak.

Reported-by: Juan Marcos Diez Esteban <juan_m_diez@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c
index 0c6b4d4..8ecd775 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int hidraw_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
kfree(list->hidraw);
}

+ kfree(list);
+
return 0;
}

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