From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dan.carpenter@oracle.com (Dan Carpenter) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:57:31 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] staging: bcm2835: Fix a memory leak in error handling path In-Reply-To: <6585ca42-71f4-1517-c6fc-b9ed2f23c687@i2se.com> References: <20170219103412.10092-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> <6585ca42-71f4-1517-c6fc-b9ed2f23c687@i2se.com> Message-ID: <20170224195731.GB4480@mwanda> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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 > >--- > >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