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* [patch] regmap: fix a potential leak in regmap_bulk_write()
@ 2014-01-09  5:41 Dan Carpenter
  2014-01-09 14:10 ` Mark Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2014-01-09  5:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Brown; +Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

Static checkers complain that there is an error path where
_regmap_raw_write() fails and we goto out without freeing the "wval"
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
index 062f59860091..939f9b26d5ee 100644
--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
+++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ int regmap_bulk_write(struct regmap *map, unsigned int reg, const void *val,
 {
 	int ret = 0, i;
 	size_t val_bytes = map->format.val_bytes;
-	void *wval;
+	void *wval = NULL;
 
 	if (!map->bus)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -1555,10 +1555,10 @@ int regmap_bulk_write(struct regmap *map, unsigned int reg, const void *val,
 		ret = _regmap_raw_write(map, reg, wval, val_bytes * val_count);
 	}
 
-	if (val_bytes != 1)
-		kfree(wval);
 
 out:
+	if (val_bytes != 1)
+		kfree(wval);
 	map->unlock(map->lock_arg);
 	return ret;
 }

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* Re: [patch] regmap: fix a potential leak in regmap_bulk_write()
  2014-01-09  5:41 [patch] regmap: fix a potential leak in regmap_bulk_write() Dan Carpenter
@ 2014-01-09 14:10 ` Mark Brown
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mark Brown @ 2014-01-09 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter; +Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:41:04AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Static checkers complain that there is an error path where
> _regmap_raw_write() fails and we goto out without freeing the "wval"
> buffer.

This doesn't apply against current code (these functions got rewritten),
can you please check?

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