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From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
	ldv-project@linuxtesting.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] marvell-ccic: fix memory leak on failure path in cafe_smbus_setup()
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 19:59:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55201867.1070602@ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150404153647.01d475a5@lwn.net>

On 04.04.2015 16:36, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat,  4 Apr 2015 03:16:01 +0300
> Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> wrote:
> 
>> If i2c_add_adapter() fails, adap is not deallocated.
>>
>> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
> 
> Actually, the worse thing is that it leaves the IRQ enabled...it's good
> you moved that lines down.  Even better, of course, that the failure path
> has probably never been run during the life of this driver...:)

And hopefully it will not, but we will be ready:)

> 
> Should there be some sort of proper reported-by line for the driver
> verification project?

Till now, we used "Found by" line, but we are open to any better way.

> 
> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

--
Alexey

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-04 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-04  0:16 [PATCH] [media] marvell-ccic: fix memory leak on failure path in cafe_smbus_setup() Alexey Khoroshilov
2015-04-04 13:36 ` Jonathan Corbet
2015-04-04 16:59   ` Alexey Khoroshilov [this message]

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