From: Julia Lawall Subject: [PATCH 2/6] drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c: introduce missing kfree Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 16:23:43 +0200 Message-ID: <1301667827-20056-2-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Kim Phillips , Steve Cornelius , Dan Carpenter , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @r exists@ local idexpression x; statement S; expression E; identifier f,f1,l; position p1,p2; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...x...+> } ( x->f1 = E | (x->f1 == NULL || ...) | f(...,x->f1,...) ) ...> ( return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\); | return@p2 ...; ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c b/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c index dce44b2..20e1215 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c @@ -1120,6 +1120,7 @@ static int __init caam_algapi_init(void) if (err < 0 && i == 0) { dev_err(ctrldev, "algapi error in job ring registration: %d\n", err); + kfree(jrdev); return err; }