[PATCH] hamradio: Resolve memory leak due to missing firmware releasein add_mcs()

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Thu Jan 06 2011 - 15:50:41 EST



Failure to release_firmware() in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c::add_mcs()
causes memory leak.
This patch should fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
yam.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

compile tested only

diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
index 4e7d1d0..7d9ced0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ static unsigned char *add_mcs(unsigned char *bits, int bitrate,
while (p) {
if (p->bitrate == bitrate) {
memcpy(p->bits, bits, YAM_FPGA_SIZE);
- return p->bits;
+ goto out;
}
p = p->next;
}
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static unsigned char *add_mcs(unsigned char *bits, int bitrate,
p->bitrate = bitrate;
p->next = yam_data;
yam_data = p;
-
+ out:
release_firmware(fw);
return p->bits;
}


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