[PATCH 2/8] firewire: cdev: fix memory leak in an error path

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

If copy_from_user in an FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_RESPONSE ioctl failed, an
inbound_transaction_resource instance is no longer referenced and needs
to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
---
 drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.31/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.31.orig/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
+++ linux-2.6.31/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
@@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ static int ioctl_send_response(struct cl
 	struct fw_cdev_send_response *request = buffer;
 	struct client_resource *resource;
 	struct inbound_transaction_resource *r;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (release_client_resource(client, request->handle,
 				    release_request, &resource) < 0)
@@ -707,13 +708,17 @@ static int ioctl_send_response(struct cl
 			 resource);
 	if (request->length < r->length)
 		r->length = request->length;
-	if (copy_from_user(r->data, u64_to_uptr(request->data), r->length))
-		return -EFAULT;
+
+	if (copy_from_user(r->data, u64_to_uptr(request->data), r->length)) {
+		ret = -EFAULT;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	fw_send_response(client->device->card, r->request, request->rcode);
+ out:
 	kfree(r);
 
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int ioctl_initiate_bus_reset(struct client *client, void *buffer)

-- 
Stefan Richter
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