[PATCH] mtd: nand: fix memory leak on ep on error exit returns

[Boris Brezillon]

Hi Colin,

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:49:09 +0000
Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> There are two error return paths that are not kfree'ing ep that
> lead to memory leaks.  Fix this by exiting on error via the
> ext_out exit path that performs the necessary kfree.

Well, given that no one implements the ->exec_op() hook yet, the
xxxx_op() functions always return 0 right now, but I agree, we
should fix the generic case. 

> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1462747 ("Resource Leak")
> 
> Fixes: b83ea87958c5 ("mtd: nand: provide several helpers to do common NAND operations")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

If you don't mind, I'd like to squash these changes in the original
commit.

Thanks,

Boris

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> index eb810d5d44e7..1c5126d1db8c 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> @@ -5046,14 +5046,14 @@ static int nand_flash_detect_ext_param_page(struct nand_chip *chip,
>  	/* Send our own NAND_CMD_PARAM. */
>  	ret = nand_read_param_page_op(chip, 0, NULL, 0);
>  	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> +		goto ext_out;
>  
>  	/* Use the Change Read Column command to skip the ONFI param pages. */
>  	ret = nand_change_read_column_op(chip,
>  					 sizeof(*p) * p->num_of_param_pages,
>  					 ep, len, true);
>  	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> +		goto ext_out;
>  
>  	ret = -EINVAL;
>  	if ((onfi_crc16(ONFI_CRC_BASE, ((uint8_t *)ep) + 2, len - 2)