drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c fix resource leak
Coverity CID: 2172 RESOURCE_LEAK
When pool_allocate() tries to enlarge a packet, if it can not allocate enough
memory, it returns NULL without first freeing the old packet.
This patch just frees the packet first.
Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
index ba6340a..929101e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
@@ -590,8 +590,10 @@
packet = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ipw_rx_packet) +
old_packet->length + minimum_free_space,
GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!packet)
+ if (!packet) {
+ kfree(old_packet);
return NULL;
+ }
memcpy(packet, old_packet,
sizeof(struct ipw_rx_packet)
+ old_packet->length);