]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/kernel/stable.git/commitdiff
cciss: fix memory leak
authorJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:03:11 +0000 (21:03 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:59:17 +0000 (15:59 -0800)
mainline: f2912a1223c0917a7b4e054f18086209137891ea

There's a memory leak in the cciss driver.

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 <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/block/cciss.c

index 5acc6c44aeadd1a57908ad3d63001df665496561..132f76bc86c9613f9b547f3d43da1e74043c5542 100644 (file)
@@ -3225,12 +3225,15 @@ 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;
                }