Sep 26 2010

sgiseeq: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() 

Author: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com>

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: David S. Miller 

---
 drivers/net/sgiseeq.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c b/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c
index cc4bd8c..9265315 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sgiseeq.c
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int __devinit sgiseeq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 err_out_free_page:
 	free_page((unsigned long) sp->srings);
 err_out_free_dev:
-	kfree(dev);
+	free_netdev(dev);
 
 err_out:
 	return err;

qlambert