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

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Fri Feb 24 11:57:31 PST 2017


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:37:30PM +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> Am 19.02.2017 um 11:34 schrieb Christophe JAILLET:
> >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?
> 

Yes, but I already sent a patch to fix this and your leak as well and
Greg merged it.

> sorry, didn't checked your patch yet.

It takes like 30 seconds to review this patch.  Do you use mutt?  I have
a macro that applies patches and loads vim at the right line.

regards,
dan carpenter




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