Re: [PATCH] au88x0: mem leak fix in snd_vortex_create()

On 08/04/2007 02:09 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote:

In sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c::snd_vortex_create() : The Coverity checker found that if we allocate storage for 'chip' but then leave via the regions_out: label, then we end up leaking the storage allocated for 'chip'. I believe simply freeing 'chip' before the "return err;" line is all we need to fix this, but please double-check me :)

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c b/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c
index 5ec1b6f..f70286a 100644
--- a/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c
+++ b/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ snd_vortex_create(struct snd_card *card, struct pci_dev *pci, vortex_t ** rchip)
 	pci_disable_device(chip->pci_dev);
 	//FIXME: this not the right place to unregister the gameport
 	vortex_gameport_unregister(chip);
+	kfree(chip);
 	return err;
 }

ACK.

Rene.
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