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

At Sat, 4 Aug 2007 02:09:25 +0200,
Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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]>

Thanks, applied to ALSA tree now.


Takashi
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