[PATCH] sis900: Fix mem leak in sis900_rx error path

Subsystems: networking drivers, the rest

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2011-02-06 · open the first message on its own page

[PATCH] sis900: Fix mem leak in sis900_rx error path

From: Jesper Juhl <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-05 20:42:37

Fix memory leak in error path of sis900_rx(). If we don't do this we'll 
leak the skb we dev_alloc_skb()'ed just a few lines above when the 
variable goes out of scope.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <redacted>
---
 sis900.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/sis900.c b/drivers/net/sis900.c
index 5976d1d..640e368 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sis900.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sis900.c
@@ -1777,6 +1777,7 @@ static int sis900_rx(struct net_device *net_dev)
 					      "cur_rx:%4.4d, dirty_rx:%4.4d\n",
 					      net_dev->name, sis_priv->cur_rx,
 					      sis_priv->dirty_rx);
+				dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 				break;
 			}
 
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Re: [PATCH] sis900: Fix mem leak in sis900_rx error path

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2011-02-06 02:08:33

From: Jesper Juhl <redacted>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 21:41:53 +0100 (CET)
Fix memory leak in error path of sis900_rx(). If we don't do this we'll 
leak the skb we dev_alloc_skb()'ed just a few lines above when the 
variable goes out of scope.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <redacted>
Applied, thanks Jesper.
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