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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
index ba6340ae98afa1f7a5f80bb33360270aa4cc7cc8..929101ecbae29c180889a1d10e8c7f0549bcd713 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
@@ -590,8 +590,10 @@ static struct ipw_rx_packet *pool_allocate(struct ipw_hardware *hw,
                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);