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HID: fix memory leak in hidraw_release

RFC New Oliver Pinter 1 participant 1 message Aug 2, 2008 HID

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RFC 1/1 HID: fix memory leak in hidraw_release

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From 4db1c62c9991e62b441672db7f227e722776adc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:45:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] HID: fix memory leak in hidraw_release

[ Upstream commit 4db1c62c9991e62b441672db7f227e722776adc4 ]

hidraw_release() forgot to free the linked list structure, causing memory leak.

Reported-by Juan Marcos Diez Esteban <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
CC Oliver Pinter <[email protected]>
drivers/hid/hidraw.c +2 -0
index 0c6b4d4..8ecd775 100644
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int hidraw_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
 			kfree(list->hidraw);
 	}
 
+	kfree(list);
+
 	return 0;
 }