Re: [PATCH] b43: fix memory leak

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Fri Feb 19 2016 - 02:45:40 EST


Michael BÃsch <m@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:04:36 +0530
> Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> On error we jumped to the label bcma_out and returned the error code but
>> we missed freeing dev.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
>> index c279211..78f670a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
>> @@ -5671,6 +5671,7 @@ static int b43_bcma_probe(struct bcma_device *core)
>> wl = b43_wireless_init(dev);
>> if (IS_ERR(wl)) {
>> err = PTR_ERR(wl);
>> + kfree(dev);
>> goto bcma_out;
>> }
>>
>
> We recently had a patch that fixes this, among more leaks. Subject:
> [PATCH v2 resend] b43: Fix memory leaks in b43_bus_dev_ssb_init and
> b43_bus_dev_bcma_init
>
> Please test that patch instead, so we can finally apply it.
>
> It needs to be tested on both ssb and bcma. Come on. This isn't too
> hard. :) Please somebody with any hardware test it. (I currently don't
> have any b43 hardware)

And the patch can be downloaded from patchwork:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8049041/

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Kalle Valo