From: khilman@ti.com (Kevin Hilman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv2] arm: mach-omap2: smartreflex: fix another memory leak
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:38:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp2ez1fx.fsf@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297087684-19967-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> (Aaro Koskinen's message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:08:04 +0200")
Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> writes:
> Temporary strings with volt_* file names should be released after the
> debugfs entries are created. While at it, also simplify the string
> allocation, and use just snprintf() to create the name.
>
> The patch eliminates kmemleak reports with the following stack trace
> (multiple objects depending on HW):
>
> unreferenced object 0xcedbc5a0 (size 64):
> comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294929375 (age 423.734s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 76 6f 6c 74 5f 39 37 35 30 30 30 00 00 00 00 00 volt_975000.....
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> backtrace:
> [<c012fee0>] create_object+0x104/0x208
> [<c012dbc8>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf0/0x17c
> [<c0013f64>] omap_sr_probe+0x314/0x420
> [<c02a1724>] platform_drv_probe+0x18/0x1c
> [<c02a088c>] driver_probe_device+0xc8/0x188
> [<c02a09b4>] __driver_attach+0x68/0x8c
> [<c02a00ac>] bus_for_each_dev+0x44/0x74
> [<c029f9e0>] bus_add_driver+0xa0/0x228
> [<c02a0cac>] driver_register+0xa8/0x130
> [<c02a1b2c>] platform_driver_probe+0x18/0x8c
> [<c0013c1c>] sr_init+0x40/0x74
> [<c005a554>] do_one_initcall+0xc8/0x1a0
> [<c00084f4>] kernel_init+0x150/0x218
> [<c0065d64>] kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8
> [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
> ---
>
> v2: Get rid of kmalloc().
Replied to the wrong patch earlier.
Just to be clear, I'm queuing v2 for the 2.6.38-rc cycle.
Kevin
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c | 15 +++------------
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
> index 77ecebf..e54db84 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
> @@ -927,19 +927,10 @@ static int __init omap_sr_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> }
>
> for (i = 0; i < sr_info->nvalue_count; i++) {
> - char *name;
> - char volt_name[32];
> -
> - name = kzalloc(NVALUE_NAME_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!name) {
> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s: Unable to allocate memory"
> - " for n-value directory name\n", __func__);
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
> + char name[NVALUE_NAME_LEN + 1];
>
> - strcpy(name, "volt_");
> - sprintf(volt_name, "%d", volt_data[i].volt_nominal);
> - strcat(name, volt_name);
> + snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "volt_%d",
> + volt_data[i].volt_nominal);
> (void) debugfs_create_x32(name, S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO, nvalue_dir,
> &(sr_info->nvalue_table[i].nvalue));
> }
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-14 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-07 14:08 [PATCHv2] arm: mach-omap2: smartreflex: fix another memory leak Aaro Koskinen
2011-02-07 15:04 ` Vishwanath Sripathy
2011-02-07 15:14 ` Aaro Koskinen
2011-02-14 22:38 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
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