From: Vasiliy Kulikov Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:08:04 +0000 (+0400) Subject: staging: otus: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2166abebc55843409327ddf6cc424cafadd33a30;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git staging: otus: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() Freeing netdev without free_netdev() leads to net, tx leaks. I might lead to dereferencing freed pointer. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) @@ struct net_device* dev; @@ -kfree(dev) +free_netdev(dev) Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c b/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c index 165a82b9ab85..9a5c4152aac4 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c @@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ void usbdrv_clear_structs(struct net_device *dev) kfree(macp); - kfree(dev); + free_netdev(dev); }