From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:18:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 8/9] arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c: add missing kfree Message-Id: <1312802283-9107-8-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Ashish Kalra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Timur Tabi From: Julia Lawall At this point, ehv_pic has been allocated but not stored anywhere, so it should be freed before leaving the function. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @exists@ local idexpression x; statement S,S1; expression E; identifier fl; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ x = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x = NULL) S <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...kfree(x)...+> } when any when != true x = NULL x->fl ...> ( if (x = NULL) S1 | if (...) { ... when != x when forall ( return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\); | * return ...; ) } ) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c index af1a5df..b6731e4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ void __init ehv_pic_init(void) if (!ehv_pic->irqhost) { of_node_put(np); + kfree(ehv_pic); return; }