Memleak fix for DIGITAL EtherWORKS 3 ethernet driver

Oleg Drokin (green@linuxhacker.ru)
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:38:44 +0400


Hello!

There is a memleak on error exit path that is trivial to fix.
The problem is present both in 2.4 and 2.5, the same patch applies.

Please consider applying.

Bye,
Oleg

===== drivers/net/ewrk3.c 1.20 vs edited =====
--- 1.20/drivers/net/ewrk3.c Tue Dec 3 04:22:09 2002
+++ edited/drivers/net/ewrk3.c Tue Apr 22 23:33:40 2003
@@ -1972,7 +1972,10 @@
case EWRK3_GET_STATS: { /* Get the driver statistics */
struct ewrk3_stats *tmp_stats =
kmalloc(sizeof(lp->pktStats), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!tmp_stats) return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!tmp_stats) {
+ status = -ENOMEM;
+ break;
+ }

spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->hw_lock, flags);
memcpy(tmp_stats, &lp->pktStats, sizeof(lp->pktStats));
-
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