From: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk>
To: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>,
Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>,
Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_parport: fix possible memory leak
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:39:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202303112239.21234.linux@zary.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202303112211.57761.linux@zary.sk>
On Saturday 11 March 2023 22:11:57 Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Saturday 11 March 2023 21:23:25 Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> > On 3/11/23 11:19 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> >
> > >> When ida_alloc() fails, "pi" is not freed although the misleading
> > >> comment says otherwise.
> > >> Move the ida_alloc() call up so we really don't have to free it.
> >
> > Wait, but don't we still need to call kfree() in pi_init_one()?
>
> If it fails at device_register, the dev.release is already set to
> pata_parport_dev_release which does the kfree(). put_device() should call
> it. If it fails later, device_unregister() should do it.
But I see that the ida_free() at the end of pi_init_one() is wrong. It uses pi->dev.id but pi is either uninitialized or already freed.
--
Ondrej Zary
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-11 21:39 UTC|newest]
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2023-03-11 18:51 ` [PATCH] pata_parport: fix possible memory leak Ondrej Zary
2023-03-11 20:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2023-03-11 20:23 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2023-03-11 21:11 ` Ondrej Zary
2023-03-11 21:39 ` Ondrej Zary [this message]
2023-03-11 21:44 ` [PATCH v2] " Ondrej Zary
2023-03-12 0:56 ` Damien Le Moal
2023-03-12 21:24 ` Ondrej Zary
2023-03-12 23:17 ` Damien Le Moal
2023-03-13 7:53 ` Ondrej Zary
2023-03-14 22:58 ` [PATCH v3] pata_parport: fix memory leaks Ondrej Zary
2023-03-16 7:53 ` Damien Le Moal
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