Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933087AbYBGUDm (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:03:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757156AbYBGUDO (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:03:14 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:38645 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753901AbYBGUDM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:03:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SNCzrqPvISvIbyJq/SGA8Y4I2BjncpXQCrTfLma56uPL/Szn1wopC3aGbh7po4p/q+19XLxM60maM6o+yzE4NCHzZOV4rFxfUjditVNHmbWwheId8jvyPPkgf/davsR8gMEMzBbhack4TuteIrkfsv2t0Ji71ZU5Th5qyJIs7QY= Message-ID: <6101e8c40802071203r5d56f6d6m330a4d7a15e4642b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:03:11 +0100 From: "Oliver Pinter" To: "Linux Kernel" , stable@kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6.22.y] {01/14} - cciss: fix memory leak - on top of 2.6.22.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1547 Lines: 53 aka: cciss-fix_memory_leak.patch >From f2912a1223c0917a7b4e054f18086209137891ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Juhl Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:39:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] cciss: fix memory leak There's a memory leak in the cciss driver. mainline: f2912a1223c0917a7b4e054f18086209137891ea in alloc_cciss_hba() we may leak sizeof(ctlr_info_t) bytes if a call to alloc_disk(1 << NWD_SHIFT) fails. This patch should fix the issue. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Acked-by: Mike Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds CC: Oliver Pinter diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c index 1be82d5..a11b2bd 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -3227,12 +3227,15 @@ static int alloc_cciss_hba(void) for (i = 0; i < MAX_CTLR; i++) { if (!hba[i]) { ctlr_info_t *p; + p = kzalloc(sizeof(ctlr_info_t), GFP_KERNEL); if (!p) goto Enomem; p->gendisk[0] = alloc_disk(1 << NWD_SHIFT); - if (!p->gendisk[0]) + if (!p->gendisk[0]) { + kfree(p); goto Enomem; + } hba[i] = p; return i; } -- Thanks, Oliver -- 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/