From: Julia Lawall spid has been allocated in this function and so should be freed before leaving it, as in the other error handling cases. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) @r exists@ expression E,E1; statement S; position p1,p2,p3; @@ E =@p1 \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...) ... when != E = E1 if (E == NULL || ...) S ... when != E = E1 if@p2 (...) { ... when != kfree(E) } ... when != E = E1 kfree@p3(E); @forall@ position r.p2; expression r.E; int E1 != 0; @@ * if@p2 (...) { ... when != kfree(E) when strict return E1; } Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Cc: Karsten Keil Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c~drivers-isdn-sc-ioctlc-add-missing-kfree drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c --- a/drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c~drivers-isdn-sc-ioctlc-add-missing-kfree +++ a/drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c @@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int sc_ioctl(int card, scs_ioctl *data) */ if (copy_from_user(spid, data->dataptr, SCIOC_SPIDSIZE)) { kfree(rcvmsg); + kfree(spid); return -EFAULT; } _