Coverity: mt7921_check_offload_capability(): Resource leaks

coverity-bot keescook at chromium.org
Fri Dec 2 14:21:46 PST 2022


Hello!

This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
Coverity from a scan of next-20221202 as part of the linux-next scan project:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan

You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:

  Thu Dec 1 17:29:13 2022 +0100
    034ae28b56f1 ("wifi: mt76: mt7921: introduce remain_on_channel support")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1527806:  Resource leaks  (RESOURCE_LEAK)
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c:178 in mt7921_check_offload_capability()
172     	ret = request_firmware(&fw, fw_wm, dev);
173     	if (ret)
174     		return ret;
175
176     	if (!fw || !fw->data || fw->size < sizeof(*hdr)) {
177     		dev_err(dev, "Invalid firmware\n");
vvv     CID 1527806:  Resource leaks  (RESOURCE_LEAK)
vvv     Variable "fw" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to.
178     		return -EINVAL;
179     	}
180
181     	data = fw->data;
182     	hdr = (const void *)(fw->data + fw->size - sizeof(*hdr));
183

If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):

Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot at chromium.org>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527806 ("Resource leaks")
Fixes: 034ae28b56f1 ("wifi: mt76: mt7921: introduce remain_on_channel support")

Thanks for your attention!

-- 
Coverity-bot



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