From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754020Ab0HYXhe (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:37:34 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59316 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753963Ab0HYXhb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:37:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100825.163746.15256125.davem@davemloft.net> To: julia@diku.dk Cc: samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] drivers/net/irda: Eliminate memory leak From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:38:33 +0200 (CEST) > From: Julia Lawall > > dev_alloc_skb allocates some memory, so that memory should be freed before > leaving the function in an error case. > > Corrected some typos in a nearby comment as well. > > A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) ... > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Applied.