[PATCH] ath10k: fix memory leak on caldata on error exit path
Colin Ian King
colin.king at canonical.com
Sat Sep 3 09:33:40 PDT 2016
On 02/09/16 16:45, Valo, Kalle wrote:
> Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com> writes:
>
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>>
>> caldata is not being free'd on the error exit path, causing
>> a memory leak. kfree it to fix the leak.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
>> index 9a22c47..886337c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
>> @@ -2725,6 +2725,7 @@ static int ath10k_pci_hif_fetch_cal_eeprom(struct ath10k *ar, void **data,
>> return 0;
>>
>> err_free:
>> + kfree(caldata);
>> kfree(data);
>>
>> return -EINVAL;
>
> I don't think we should free data at all:
>
> static int ath10k_download_cal_eeprom(struct ath10k *ar)
> {
> size_t data_len;
> void *data = NULL;
> int ret;
>
> ret = ath10k_hif_fetch_cal_eeprom(ar, &data, &data_len);
>
> Instead we should free only caldata, right?
>
Yep, good catch, I'll send V2 later.
Colin
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