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[PATCH][V2] ath10k: fix memory leak on caldata on error exit path

From Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH][V2] ath10k: fix memory leak on caldata on error exit path
Date 2016-09-03 18:40 +0200
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

caldata is not being free'd on the error exit path, causing
a memory leak and data definitely should not be freed. Free
caldata instead of data.

Thanks to Kalle Valo for spotting that data should not be
free'd.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
index 9a22c47..afdf0fa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
@@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@ static int ath10k_pci_hif_fetch_cal_eeprom(struct ath10k *ar, void **data,
 	return 0;
 
 err_free:
-	kfree(data);
+	kfree(caldata);
 
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
-- 
2.9.3

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[PATCH][V2] ath10k: fix memory leak on caldata on error exit path Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> - 2016-09-03 18:40 +0200

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