[PATCH] ARM: dma-mapping: Fix potential memory leak in atomic_pool_init()
Marek Szyprowski
m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Mon Sep 24 03:05:08 EDT 2012
Hello,
On Monday, September 17, 2012 7:10 AM Sachin Kamat wrote:
> When either of __alloc_from_contiguous or __alloc_remap_buffer fails
> to provide a valid pointer, allocated memory is freed up and an error
> is returned. 'pages' was however not freed before returning error.
>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 546a3e8..477a2d2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
> (unsigned)pool->size / 1024);
> return 0;
> }
> +
> + kfree(pages);
> no_pages:
> kfree(bitmap);
> no_bitmap:
> --
> 1.7.4.1
Applied to my fixes-for-3.6 branch. Thanks for spotting this issue!
Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center
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