staging, vt6656/wpactl.c: Fix mem leak in wpa_ioctl()
authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:28:37 +0000 (21:28 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:20:06 +0000 (09:20 -0800)
If we hit the default case in the switch statement in wpa_ioctl()
we'll leak the memory allocated to 'param' when the variable goes out
of scope without having been assigned to anything.

This patch fixes the leak by kfree()'ing the memory before we return
from the function.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c

index 9d148686635249f5a95dafc953ae4686e0b6ef01..5435e8205b2c69262f4dee082ceef28f6b9228b6 100644 (file)
@@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ int wpa_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct iw_point *p)
        default:
                DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "wpa_ioctl: unknown cmd=%d\n",
                        param->cmd);
+               kfree(param);
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
        }