Net, libertas: Resolve memory leak in if_spi_host_to_card()
authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:14:32 +0000 (22:14 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:02:57 +0000 (10:02 -0500)
If we hit the default case in the switch in if_spi_host_to_card() we'll leak
the memory we allocated for 'packet'. This patch resolves the leak by freeing
the allocated memory in that case.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c

index 622ae6de0d8bfc31161ba687f0e4f35a0976b08d..7059d9645dab607e749634e3a868d8321b71b360 100644 (file)
@@ -995,6 +995,7 @@ static int if_spi_host_to_card(struct lbs_private *priv,
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&card->buffer_lock, flags);
                break;
        default:
+               kfree(packet);
                netdev_err(priv->dev, "can't transfer buffer of type %d\n",
                           type);
                err = -EINVAL;