[2.6 patch] mtd/ubi/vtbl.c: fix memory leak

Adrian Bunk bunk at kernel.org
Mon Mar 3 13:07:52 EST 2008


This patch fixes a memory leak introduced by commit 
4ccf8cffa963c7b5bdc6d455ea9417084ee49aa8 and spotted by the Coverity 
checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk at kernel.org>

---

 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c.orig	2008-03-02 14:06:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c	2008-03-02 14:15:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -502,40 +502,41 @@ static int init_volumes(struct ubi_devic
 		vol = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ubi_volume), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!vol)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		vol->reserved_pebs = be32_to_cpu(vtbl[i].reserved_pebs);
 		vol->alignment = be32_to_cpu(vtbl[i].alignment);
 		vol->data_pad = be32_to_cpu(vtbl[i].data_pad);
 		vol->vol_type = vtbl[i].vol_type == UBI_VID_DYNAMIC ?
 					UBI_DYNAMIC_VOLUME : UBI_STATIC_VOLUME;
 		vol->name_len = be16_to_cpu(vtbl[i].name_len);
 		vol->usable_leb_size = ubi->leb_size - vol->data_pad;
 		memcpy(vol->name, vtbl[i].name, vol->name_len);
 		vol->name[vol->name_len] = '\0';
 		vol->vol_id = i;
 
 		if (vtbl[i].flags & UBI_VTBL_AUTORESIZE_FLG) {
 			/* Auto re-size flag may be set only for one volume */
 			if (ubi->autoresize_vol_id != -1) {
 				ubi_err("more then one auto-resize volume (%d "
 					"and %d)", ubi->autoresize_vol_id, i);
+				kfree(vol);
 				return -EINVAL;
 			}
 
 			ubi->autoresize_vol_id = i;
 		}
 
 		ubi_assert(!ubi->volumes[i]);
 		ubi->volumes[i] = vol;
 		ubi->vol_count += 1;
 		vol->ubi = ubi;
 		reserved_pebs += vol->reserved_pebs;
 
 		/*
 		 * In case of dynamic volume UBI knows nothing about how many
 		 * data is stored there. So assume the whole volume is used.
 		 */
 		if (vol->vol_type == UBI_DYNAMIC_VOLUME) {
 			vol->used_ebs = vol->reserved_pebs;
 			vol->last_eb_bytes = vol->usable_leb_size;
 			vol->used_bytes =




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