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In some initialization functions of this driver, memory is allocated with
'i' acting as an index variable and increasing from 0. The commit in
"Fixes" introduces some clean-up codes in case of allocation failure,
which free memory in reverse order with 'i' decreasing to 0. However,
there are some problems:
- The case i=0 is left out. Thus memory is leaked.
- In case memory allocation fails right from the start, the memory
freeing loops will start with i=-1 and invalid memory locations will
be accessed.
One of these loops has been fixed in commit c8ff915358 ("staging:
vt6655: fix potential memory leak"). Fix the remaining erroneous loops.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/Yx9H1zSpxmNqx6Xc@kadam/
Fixes: 5341ee0adb ("staging: vt6655: check for memory allocation failures")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcaov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912170429.29852-1-namcaov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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