Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc4] usb auerswald possible memleak fix

[Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>]

Witam, 

> Hello,
> 
> 	There is possible memleak in auerbuf_setup(). Fix is to replace kfree() with auerbuf_free().
> An argument to usb_free_urb() does not need a check as usb_free_urb() already does that. Not sure if I should
> send this in two separate patches. The patch is against 2.6.19-rc4 (not -mm).

As I posted the bigger usb_free_urb() patch in another mail this one should do only one 
thing which is to fix possible memory leak in auerbuf_setup().

Regards,

	Mariusz Kozlowski

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>

diff -up linux-2.6.19-rc4-orig/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c linux-2.6.19-rc4/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c 
--- linux-2.6.19-rc4-orig/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c  2006-11-06 17:08:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc4/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c     2006-11-07 00:26:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static int auerbuf_setup (pauerbufctl_t 
 
 bl_fail:/* not enough memory. Free allocated elements */
         dbg ("auerbuf_setup: no more memory");
-       kfree(bep);
+        auerbuf_free (bep);
         auerbuf_free_buffers (bcp);
         return -ENOMEM;
 }
-
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