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[PATCH 04/11] hso: fix memory leak in hso_create_rfkill()

From: Olivier Sobrie <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-20 12:34:13
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: hso 3g modem driver, networking drivers, the rest, usb networking drivers · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

When the rfkill interface was created, a buffer containing the name
of the rfkill node was allocated. This buffer was never freed when the
device disappears.

To fix the problem, we put the name given to rfkill_alloc() in
the hso_net structure.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Sobrie <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/usb/hso.c | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
index 470ef9e..a49ac2e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ struct hso_net {
 	struct hso_device *parent;
 	struct net_device *net;
 	struct rfkill *rfkill;
+	char name[8];
 
 	struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *in_endp;
 	struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *out_endp;
@@ -2467,27 +2468,20 @@ static void hso_create_rfkill(struct hso_device *hso_dev,
 {
 	struct hso_net *hso_net = dev2net(hso_dev);
 	struct device *dev = &hso_net->net->dev;
-	char *rfkn;
 
-	rfkn = kzalloc(20, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!rfkn)
-		dev_err(dev, "%s - Out of memory\n", __func__);
-
-	snprintf(rfkn, 20, "hso-%d",
+	snprintf(hso_net->name, sizeof(hso_net->name), "hso-%d",
 		 interface->altsetting->desc.bInterfaceNumber);
 
-	hso_net->rfkill = rfkill_alloc(rfkn,
+	hso_net->rfkill = rfkill_alloc(hso_net->name,
 				       &interface_to_usbdev(interface)->dev,
 				       RFKILL_TYPE_WWAN,
 				       &hso_rfkill_ops, hso_dev);
 	if (!hso_net->rfkill) {
 		dev_err(dev, "%s - Out of memory\n", __func__);
-		kfree(rfkn);
 		return;
 	}
 	if (rfkill_register(hso_net->rfkill) < 0) {
 		rfkill_destroy(hso_net->rfkill);
-		kfree(rfkn);
 		hso_net->rfkill = NULL;
 		dev_err(dev, "%s - Failed to register rfkill\n", __func__);
 		return;
-- 
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