[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Sound, 6fire: Don't leak firmware in error path

[Jesper Juhl]

One of the error paths in 
sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c::usb6fire_fw_ezusb_upload() neglects to free 
the memory allocated for the firmware before returning, thus leaking the 
memory.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>
---
 firmware.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

  patch against 3.0-rc1
  compile tested only

diff --git a/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c b/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c
index d47beff..a91719d 100644
--- a/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c
+++ b/sound/usb/6fire/firmware.c
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ static int usb6fire_fw_ezusb_upload(
 	ret = usb6fire_fw_ihex_init(fw, rec);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		kfree(rec);
+		release_firmware(fw);
 		snd_printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "error validating ezusb "
 				"firmware %s.\n", fwname);
 		return ret;


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