* [RFC, 2.6.26.2-rc1] HID: fix memory leak in hidraw_release
@ 2008-08-02 20:13 Oliver Pinter
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From: Oliver Pinter @ 2008-08-02 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jiri Kosina, stable; +Cc: linux-kernel, Juan Marcos Diez Esteban, Oliver Pinter
>From 4db1c62c9991e62b441672db7f227e722776adc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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 <juan_m_diez@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c
index 0c6b4d4..8ecd775 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int hidraw_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
kfree(list->hidraw);
}
+ kfree(list);
+
return 0;
}
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