[PATCH] ARM: imx: add missing kfree call in error paths

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu May 22 13:12:40 PDT 2014


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> Hello Dan,
> 
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:50:16PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 03:14:42PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> > > We forgot to free pdev->dev.dma_mask as it is not freed
> > > by platform_device_put().
> > > 
> > 
> > Every function which calls imx31_alloc_mx3_camera() is buggy.  That
> > means that, at best, it is a 2 on Rusty's API rating.
> > http://sweng.the-davies.net/Home/rustys-api-design-manifesto
> > 
> > The correct fix is to introduce an imx31_free_mx3_camera() otherwise we
> > will just keep introducing these bugs.
> 
> I guess I could add this to arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
> it would be a very small function though.

A small function is fine.  :)

regards,
dan carpenter




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