From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: armada: fix incorrect check for drvdata allocation failure Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:14:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20180730122716.6267-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180730122716.6267-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Colin King , Zhang Rui , Eduardo Valentin , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi Colin, On 30/07/2018 14:27, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > Currently the drvdata allocation failure is being incorrectly checked by > checking priv and not drvdata. Fix this and also free priv to fix a > memory leak. > > Detected by Coverity Scan, CID#1472102 ("Logically dead code") > > Fixes: c9899c183921 ("thermal: armada: use the resource managed registration helper alternative") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King > --- > drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c > index 4164a5a4e480..b164fd9f21ac 100644 > --- a/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c > +++ b/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c > @@ -611,8 +611,10 @@ static int armada_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > return -ENOMEM; > > drvdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*drvdata), GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!priv) > + if (!drvdata) { > + devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, priv); This is not necessary, resources will be free when the driver is destroyed after the probe fails. > return -ENOMEM; > + } > > priv->dev = &pdev->dev; > priv->data = (struct armada_thermal_data *)match->data; Thanks for sending this fix. However, another fix was already submitted for this. -- Daniel -- Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog