PATCH: Potential ressource leak in sys/dev/fb/vesa.c

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 6 18:11:35 UTC 2010


On Thursday 01 July 2010 02:52 pm, Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
> Hello,
> while tracking down a bug in vesa.c which caused a crash a friend
> of mine noticed a potential ressource leak in vesa.c. In line 841
> the execution is aborted via return (1); without freeing the
> already allocated resources. the attached patch changes the line to
> "goto fail;" which seems more correct.
>
> --- a/sys/dev/fb/vesa.c
> +++ b/sys/dev/fb/vesa.c
> @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ vesa_bios_init(void)
>  		    "version 1.2 or later is required.\n",
>  		    ((vers & 0xf000) >> 12) * 10 + ((vers & 0x0f00) >> 8),
>  		    ((vers & 0x00f0) >> 4) * 10 + (vers & 0x000f));
> -		return (1);
>  		+		goto fail;
>  	}
>
>  	VESA_STRCPY(vesa_oemstr, buf->v_oemstr);

Fixed on HEAD.  Will be MFC'ed soon.

Thanks!

Jung-uk Kim


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