[PATCH] staging: bcm2835: Fix a memory leak in error handling path

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr
Sun Feb 19 02:34:12 PST 2017


If 'kzalloc()' fails, we should release resources allocated so far, just as
done in all other cases in this function.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>
---
Not sure that the error handling path is correct.
Is 'gdev[0]' freed? Should it be?
---
 drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c b/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
index ca15a698e018..9651b9bc3439 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
@@ -1914,8 +1914,10 @@ static int __init bm2835_mmal_init(void)
 
 	for (camera = 0; camera < num_cameras; camera++) {
 		dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bm2835_mmal_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!dev)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+		if (!dev) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto free_dev;
+		}
 
 		dev->camera_num = camera;
 		dev->max_width = resolutions[camera][0];
-- 
2.9.3




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