Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753927AbWKFXcu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:32:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753928AbWKFXcu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:32:50 -0500 Received: from xdsl-664.zgora.dialog.net.pl ([81.168.226.152]:26379 "EHLO tuxland.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753927AbWKFXct (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:32:49 -0500 From: Mariusz Kozlowski Organization: tuxland To: Wolfgang =?iso-8859-2?q?M=FCes?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc4] usb auerswald possible memleak fix Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:31:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Greg KH References: <200611061903.09320.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> In-Reply-To: <200611061903.09320.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611070031.52051.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 34 Witam, > Hello, > > There is possible memleak in auerbuf_setup(). Fix is to replace kfree() with auerbuf_free(). > An argument to usb_free_urb() does not need a check as usb_free_urb() already does that. Not sure if I should > send this in two separate patches. The patch is against 2.6.19-rc4 (not -mm). As I posted the bigger usb_free_urb() patch in another mail this one should do only one thing which is to fix possible memory leak in auerbuf_setup(). Regards, Mariusz Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski diff -up linux-2.6.19-rc4-orig/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c linux-2.6.19-rc4/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c --- linux-2.6.19-rc4-orig/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c 2006-11-06 17:08:20.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc4/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c 2006-11-07 00:26:25.000000000 +0100 @@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static int auerbuf_setup (pauerbufctl_t bl_fail:/* not enough memory. Free allocated elements */ dbg ("auerbuf_setup: no more memory"); - kfree(bep); + auerbuf_free (bep); auerbuf_free_buffers (bcp); return -ENOMEM; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/