From: Greg KH To: marcelo@conectiva.com.br Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Compaq PCI Hotplug driver bugfix Hi, Here's a patch against 2.4.18-pre4 for the Compaq PCI Hotplug driver that fixes two memory leaks in the driver (one if registering a slot fails, and the other when the driver is unloaded from the kernel.) thanks, greg k-h diff -Nru a/drivers/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c b/drivers/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c --- a/drivers/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c Wed Jan 16 12:10:57 2002 +++ b/drivers/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c Wed Jan 16 12:10:57 2002 @@ -404,6 +404,10 @@ result = pci_hp_register (new_slot->hotplug_slot); if (result) { err ("pci_hp_register failed with error %d\n", result); + kfree (new_slot->hotplug_slot->info); + kfree (new_slot->hotplug_slot->name); + kfree (new_slot->hotplug_slot); + kfree (new_slot); return result; } @@ -429,6 +433,8 @@ while (old_slot) { next_slot = old_slot->next; pci_hp_deregister (old_slot->hotplug_slot); + kfree(old_slot->hotplug_slot->info); + kfree(old_slot->hotplug_slot->name); kfree(old_slot->hotplug_slot); kfree(old_slot); old_slot = next_slot;