Re: [PATCH] isight_firmware : Fix a leak and double kfree()

From: Justin Mattock
Date: Thu Aug 07 2008 - 15:09:35 EST


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Parag Warudkar
<parag.warudkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6/drivers/usb/misc/isight_firmware.c 2008-07-29
> 23:26:24.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6-wk/drivers/usb/misc/isight_firmware.c 2008-08-07
> 13:23:01.000000000 -0400
> @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@
>
> if (request_firmware(&firmware, "isight.fw", &dev->dev) != 0) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to load isight firmware\n");
> - return -ENODEV;
> + ret = -ENODEV;
> + goto out;
> }
>
> ptr = firmware->data;
> @@ -91,7 +92,6 @@
> buf, llen, 300) != llen) {
> printk(KERN_ERR
> "Failed to load isight firmware\n");
> - kfree(buf);
> ret = -ENODEV;
> goto out;
> }
>

Applied;
I guess with this BUG,
it's more of a waiting game.
("one day it's fine; the next is black")
anyways the module loads, and the firmware
is loading as well. If something like this appears
I'll send a post.

regards;
--
Justin P. Mattock
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