Re: mmotm 2008-12-17-16-41 uploaded

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:10:15PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:41:54 -0800
> akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2008-12-17-16-41 has been uploaded to
> > 
> >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > 
> > and will soon be available at
> > 
> >    git://git.zen-sources.org/zen/mmotm.git
> > 
> 
> This was necessary. I'm not sure my patch description is corrcect...
> but this helps me ;)
> This change kfree(dev->p) comes from linux-next.
> 
> ==
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> dev->release() may free struct dev itself. To free dev->p
> in safe way, remember dev->p.
> 
> Signed-off-by:KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/core.c |    7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Dec17/drivers/base/core.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mmotm-2.6.28-Dec17.orig/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ mmotm-2.6.28-Dec17/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dev_sysfs_ops = 
>  static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
>  {
>  	struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
> +	struct device_private *p = dev->p;
>  
>  	if (dev->release)
>  		dev->release(dev);
> @@ -116,11 +117,13 @@ static void device_release(struct kobjec
>  		dev->type->release(dev);
>  	else if (dev->class && dev->class->dev_release)
>  		dev->class->dev_release(dev);
> -	else
> +	else {
>  		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() "
>  			"function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",
>  			dev_name(dev));
> -	kfree(dev->p);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +	kfree(p);

You have a memory leak for when there is no release function for a
device, don't return if that happens.

I've now fixed this up in my tree, thanks for pointing it out.

greg k-h