[PATCH] m25p80: fix the malloc space without being freed when probe failed

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Jul 16 02:25:48 EDT 2013


Dear wangyuhang,

> space allocated can not be freed when probe failed, So we use
> devm_kzalloc() to instead of kzalloc().
> flash->fast_read is used without being initialized, here
> move it to the certain position.
> 
> Signed-off-by: wangyuhang <wangyuhang2014 at gmail.com>

The commit message is a little unclear, but otherwise I agree with the patch. 
The rest is I believe up to Artem.

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c |   13 ++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> index 5b6b072..70f3c54 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> @@ -955,15 +955,9 @@ static int m25p_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
>  		}
>  	}
> 
> -	flash = kzalloc(sizeof *flash, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	flash = devm_kzalloc(&spi->dev, sizeof *flash, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!flash)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> -	flash->command = kmalloc(MAX_CMD_SIZE + (flash->fast_read ? 1 : 0),
> -					GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!flash->command) {
> -		kfree(flash);
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	}
> 
>  	flash->spi = spi;
>  	mutex_init(&flash->lock);
> @@ -1032,6 +1026,11 @@ static int m25p_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
>  	flash->fast_read = true;
>  #endif
> 
> +	flash->command = devm_kzalloc(&spi->dev,
> +		MAX_CMD_SIZE + (flash->fast_read ? 1 : 0), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!flash->command)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
>  	if (info->addr_width)
>  		flash->addr_width = info->addr_width;
>  	else {

Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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