From: Jesper Juhl Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:39:39 +0000 (-0700) Subject: cciss: fix memory leak X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc2~45 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f2912a1223c0917a7b4e054f18086209137891ea;p=linux-2.6 cciss: fix memory leak There's a memory leak in the cciss driver. in alloc_cciss_hba() we may leak sizeof(ctlr_info_t) bytes if a call to alloc_disk(1 << NWD_SHIFT) fails. This patch should fix the issue. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Acked-by: Mike Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c index 1be82d544d..a11b2bd54b 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -3227,12 +3227,15 @@ static int alloc_cciss_hba(void) for (i = 0; i < MAX_CTLR; i++) { if (!hba[i]) { ctlr_info_t *p; + p = kzalloc(sizeof(ctlr_info_t), GFP_KERNEL); if (!p) goto Enomem; p->gendisk[0] = alloc_disk(1 << NWD_SHIFT); - if (!p->gendisk[0]) + if (!p->gendisk[0]) { + kfree(p); goto Enomem; + } hba[i] = p; return i; }