From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 10:04:15 +0000 (+0530) Subject: staging: wilc1000: fix freeing of ERR_PTR X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=360e27a91dd25fb7cf3b2befa1e1a7b4f27828d2;p=linux-beck.git staging: wilc1000: fix freeing of ERR_PTR If memdup_user() fails then it will return the error code in ERR_PTR. We were checking it with IS_ERR but then again trying to free it on the error path. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c index c90c45907422..020ed038130f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c @@ -2116,10 +2116,8 @@ int mac_ioctl(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *req, int cmd) if (size && wrq->u.data.pointer) { buff = memdup_user(wrq->u.data.pointer, wrq->u.data.length); - if (IS_ERR(buff)) { - s32Error = PTR_ERR(buff); - goto done; - } + if (IS_ERR(buff)) + return PTR_ERR(buff); if (strncasecmp(buff, "RSSI", length) == 0) {