From a809dda0369ae6157f7bcd3e704b857d43704cbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Lawall Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:26:10 +0200 Subject: HID: fix memory leak on error patch in debug code Error handling code following a kzalloc 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 Cc: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c index a331a1821e8..06e87dc7779 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c @@ -909,6 +909,7 @@ static int hid_debug_events_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) if (!(list->hid_debug_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(char) * HID_DEBUG_BUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL))) { err = -ENOMEM; + kfree(list); goto out; } list->hdev = (struct hid_device *) inode->i_private; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2