Sep 28 2010

staging: otus: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() 

Author: Vasiliy Kulikov <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: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c b/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c
index 165a82b..9a5c415 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ void usbdrv_clear_structs(struct net_device *dev)
 
     kfree(macp);
 
-    kfree(dev);
+    free_netdev(dev);
 
 }

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