If we end up returning -EINVAL from the function we will leak the memory allocated to 'newstr' which has been allocated but not yet assigned to anything. Fix the leak by properly freeing the memory again before we return.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> --- drivers/staging/speakup/i18n.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Compile tested only. diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/i18n.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/i18n.c index ca01734..7c1658b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/i18n.c +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/i18n.c @@ -555,6 +555,7 @@ ssize_t msg_set(enum msg_index_t index, char *text, size_t length) && index <= MSG_FORMATTED_END) && !fmt_validate(speakup_default_msgs[index], newstr)) { + kfree(newstr); return -EINVAL; } spk_lock(flags); -- 1.7.11.4 -- Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
