Re: [PATVH] media, dvb, IX2505V: Remember to free allocated memory in failure path (ix2505v_attach()).

[Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 00:11 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We may leak the storage allocated to 'state' in 
> drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c::ix2505v_attach() on error.
> This patch makes sure we free the allocated memory in the failure case.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  ix2505v.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
>   Compile tested only.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c
> index 55f2eba..fcb173d 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ix2505v.c
> @@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ struct dvb_frontend *ix2505v_attach(struct dvb_frontend *fe,
>  		ret = ix2505v_read_status_reg(state);
>  
>  		if (ret & 0x80) {
> +			kfree(state);
>  			deb_i2c("%s: No IX2505V found\n", __func__);
>  			goto error;
>  		}
> 
Memory is freed in... 

error:
	ix2505v_release(fe);
	return NULL;

via...

static int ix2505v_release(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
{
	struct ix2505v_state *state = fe->tuner_priv;

	fe->tuner_priv = NULL;
	kfree(state);

	return 0;
}


Regards


Malcolm