V4L/DVB: cx18: Fix memory leak in cx18-alsa starting of PCM captures
authorAndy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:50:51 +0000 (15:50 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:10:50 +0000 (15:10 -0300)
The cx18_open_id is normally dynamically allocated and stored in the
filp->private_data for v4l2 file operations.  The cx18-alsa routines should
not dynamically allocate a cx18_open_id because they never store it anywhere
and never free it.  This change fixes that and plugs a memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-alsa-pcm.c

index 06862a69c7b0277754e6718e03986b3cbee2e691..cfa512112ca09d1a42d37849ed5c78445009c751 100644 (file)
@@ -152,28 +152,20 @@ static int snd_cx18_pcm_capture_open(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
        struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev = cxsc->v4l2_dev;
        struct cx18 *cx = to_cx18(v4l2_dev);
        struct cx18_stream *s;
-       struct cx18_open_id *item;
+       struct cx18_open_id item;
        int ret;
 
        /* Instruct the cx18 to start sending packets */
        snd_cx18_lock(cxsc);
        s = &cx->streams[CX18_ENC_STREAM_TYPE_PCM];
 
-       /* Allocate memory */
-       item = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cx18_open_id), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (NULL == item) {
-               snd_cx18_unlock(cxsc);
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
-
-       item->cx = cx;
-       item->type = s->type;
-       item->open_id = cx->open_id++;
+       item.cx = cx;
+       item.type = s->type;
+       item.open_id = cx->open_id++;
 
        /* See if the stream is available */
-       if (cx18_claim_stream(item, item->type)) {
+       if (cx18_claim_stream(&item, item.type)) {
                /* No, it's already in use */
-               kfree(item);
                snd_cx18_unlock(cxsc);
                return -EBUSY;
        }