drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c fix resource leak

Coverity CID: 2172 RESOURCE_LEAK

When pool_allocate() tries to enlarge a packet, if it can not allocate enough
memory, it returns NULL without first freeing the old packet.

This patch just frees the packet first.

Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
index ba6340ae98af..929101ecbae2 100644
--- a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c
@@ -590,8 +590,10 @@ static struct ipw_rx_packet *pool_allocate(struct ipw_hardware *hw,
                 packet = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ipw_rx_packet) +
                                 old_packet->length + minimum_free_space,
                                 GFP_ATOMIC);
-                if (!packet)
+                if (!packet) {
+                        kfree(old_packet);
                         return NULL;
+                }
                 memcpy(packet, old_packet,
                                 sizeof(struct ipw_rx_packet)
                                         + old_packet->length);