On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:28:40 +0000
KY Srinivasan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:devel-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre Bartke
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:46 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; Andre Bartke; Haiyang Zhang; linux-
> > [email protected]
> > Subject: [PATCH] staging/hv: Fix memory leak of storvsc_dev_add()
> > 
> > stor_device is not freed in storvsc_dev_add()
> > causing a memory leak in case of an allocation error.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andre Bartke <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> > b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c index 06cd327..92b44f4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
> > @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ int storvsc_dev_add(struct hv_device *device,
> >     device_info->target_id = stor_device->target_id;
> > 
> >  cleanup:
> > +   free_stor_device(stor_device);
> >     return ret;
> 
> Was this patch tested? Even the normal path falls through the cleanup
> label and obviously you should not be freeing the stor_device in that
> case. I have patches queued up to cleanup some of the unnecessary
> labels and meaningless return values that I will be sending soon.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> K. Y
>  
> 
> 

Right, I really messed up there, here is how it was supposed to be

>From 5fe8c601bae555b03257d0e7ea57e42a99c5e634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andre Bartke <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:18:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] staging/hv: Fix memory leak of storvsc_dev_add()

stor_device is not freed in storvsc_dev_add()
causing a memory leak in case of an allocation error.

Signed-off-by: Andre Bartke <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
index 06cd327..3d77c82 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
@@ -392,10 +392,8 @@ int storvsc_dev_add(struct hv_device *device,
 
        device_info = (struct storvsc_device_info *)additional_info;
        stor_device = alloc_stor_device(device);
-       if (!stor_device) {
-               ret = -1;
-               goto cleanup;
-       }
+       if (!stor_device)
+               goto err;
 
        /* Save the channel properties to our storvsc channel */
 
@@ -413,6 +411,12 @@ int storvsc_dev_add(struct hv_device *device,
        device_info->path_id = stor_device->path_id;
        device_info->target_id = stor_device->target_id;
 
+       goto cleanup;
+
+err:
+       ret = -1;
+       free_stor_device(stor_device);
+
 cleanup:
        return ret;
 }
-- 
1.7.5.2

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