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RE: [PATCH] igb: Fix a memory leak in igb_probe

From: Brown, Aaron F <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-11 02:13:52
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From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org]
On Behalf Of Jia-Ju Bai
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 7:05 AM
To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Brandeburg, Jesse
Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
kernel@vger.kernel.org; Jia-Ju Bai
Subject: [PATCH] igb: Fix a memory leak in igb_probe

In error handling code of igb_probe, the memory adapter->shadow_vfta
allocated by kcalloc in igb_sw_init is not freed. So when register_netdev
or igb_init_i2c is failed, a memory leak will occur.
This patch adds kfree to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <redacted>
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 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <redacted>
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