Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Don't leak info in adm1275_probe

[Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 04:04:29PM -0400, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> In drivers/hwmon/adm1275.c:adm1275_probe() we'll leak the memory
> allocated to 'info' if the call to i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() returns
> less than zero.
> 
> This patch fixes the leak by simply calling kfree(info) when needed.
> I also considered just moving the 'info' memory allocation below the
> call to i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(), but I was not sure if it mattered
> to get the -ENOMEM first in that case or if it would be bad to first
> have a successful i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() call and then fail the
> mem alloc, so I stuck with the safe option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

Hi Jesper,

the fix for this problem is already enqueued as 
"hwmon: (adm1275) Free allocated memory if probe function fails".

There is also a second error condition, which occurs if pmbus_do_probe() 
returns an error.

Thanks,
Guenter