staging: ks7010_sdio: fix NULL pointer dereference and memory leak
PATCH v3 1/1 staging: ks7010_sdio: fix NULL pointer dereference and memory leak
priv is being explicitly dereferenced when it is still null, when jumping to goto label err_free_netdev, before it is properly updated with a valid memory address.
Also, when this happens, memory allocated for netdev at line 854:
netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*priv)) is not being free'd before return, hence there is a memory leak.
The current code looks a bit too complicated and can be replaced by just directly freeing netdev before return.
Notice that card->priv = NULL isn't required because the next thing we do to card is kfree(card).
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1467844 ("Explicit null dereferenced")
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Changes in v3:
- Update subject and improve changelog.
- Add Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Changes in v2:
- Update subject and commit changelog.
- Just directly free netdev. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for the feedback.
drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c +1 -2
@@ -932,8 +932,7 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,return 0 ; err_free_netdev: -free_netdev (priv->net_dev); - card->priv =NULL ; +free_netdev (netdev); err_release_irq:sdio_claim_host (func);sdio_release_irq (func);
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