From: Vasiliy Kulikov Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:08:08 +0000 (+0400) Subject: staging: slicoss: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc1~60^2~3^2~443 X-Git-Url: https://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20caa14c59dfda3f4be75530e08e439ad2e73580;p=net-next-2.6.git staging: slicoss: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() Freeing netdev without free_netdev() leads to net, tx leaks. I might lead to dereferencing freed pointer. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) @@ struct net_device* dev; @@ -kfree(dev) +free_netdev(dev) Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Acked-by: Denis Kirjanov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c index 58ff1233270..18f11039bb5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c @@ -3233,7 +3233,7 @@ static void __devexit slic_entry_remove(struct pci_dev *pcidev) slic_global.num_slic_cards--; slic_card_cleanup(card); } - kfree(dev); + free_netdev(dev); pci_release_regions(pcidev); }