From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Masami Ichikawa Subject: [PATCH] PM: Fix memory leak in pm_vt_switch_unregister(). Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:00:47 +0900 Message-ID: <1387450847-23797-1-git-send-email-masami256@gmail.com> Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: len.brown@intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz, rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, masami256@gmail.com List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org kmemleak reported a memory leak as below. unreferenced object 0xffff880118f14700 (size 32): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294877401 (age 123.283s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 01 10 00 00 00 ad de 00 02 20 00 00 00 ad de .......... ..... 00 d4 d2 18 01 88 ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0 [] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1ec/0x260 [] pm_vt_switch_required+0x76/0xb0 [] register_framebuffer+0x195/0x320 [] efifb_probe+0x718/0x780 [] platform_drv_probe+0x45/0xb0 [] driver_probe_device+0x87/0x3a0 [] __driver_attach+0x93/0xa0 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x63/0xa0 [] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20 [] bus_add_driver+0x180/0x250 [] driver_register+0x64/0xf0 [] __platform_driver_register+0x4a/0x50 [] efifb_driver_init+0x12/0x14 [] do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x1b0 [] kernel_init_freeable+0x17b/0x201 In pm_vt_switch_required(), "entry" variable is allocated via kmalloc(). So, in pm_vt_switch_unregister(), it needs to call kfree() when object is deleted from list. Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa --- kernel/power/console.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/power/console.c b/kernel/power/console.c index 463aa673..eacb8bd 100644 --- a/kernel/power/console.c +++ b/kernel/power/console.c @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ void pm_vt_switch_unregister(struct device *dev) list_for_each_entry(tmp, &pm_vt_switch_list, head) { if (tmp->dev == dev) { list_del(&tmp->head); + kfree(tmp); break; } } -- 1.8.4.2