Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:39:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter Subject: firewire: cdev: fix memory leak in an error path If copy_from_user in an FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_RESPONSE ioctl failed, an inbound_transaction_resource instance is no longer referenced and needs to be freed. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter --- drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.31/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.31.orig/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c +++ linux-2.6.31/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c @@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ static int ioctl_send_response(struct cl struct fw_cdev_send_response *request = buffer; struct client_resource *resource; struct inbound_transaction_resource *r; + int ret = 0; if (release_client_resource(client, request->handle, release_request, &resource) < 0) @@ -707,13 +708,17 @@ static int ioctl_send_response(struct cl resource); if (request->length < r->length) r->length = request->length; - if (copy_from_user(r->data, u64_to_uptr(request->data), r->length)) - return -EFAULT; + + if (copy_from_user(r->data, u64_to_uptr(request->data), r->length)) { + ret = -EFAULT; + goto out; + } fw_send_response(client->device->card, r->request, request->rcode); + out: kfree(r); - return 0; + return ret; } static int ioctl_initiate_bus_reset(struct client *client, void *buffer)