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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
To: karol herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Martin Peres <martin.peres@free.fr>,
	Karol Herbst <nouveau@karolherbst.de>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/iccsense: fix memory leak on default sensor->type case
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:42:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57515F04.8000408@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEXux-ZWRYq_8L=0Ho9DJ+VCYq_Uk=TpvszT01Ms3Lb-fx1u9g@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/06/16 10:55, karol herbst wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> 
> thanks for pointing this out, but I am quite sure this continue
> statement won't ever be hit, ever.
> 
> check the nvkm_iccsense_create_sensor function. A sensor object will
> only be created for one of those three types and others don't exist.
> I've just added that default statement to shut GCC I think.
> 
> The thing is I reworked that code already and will check if this
> situation still applies there.

OK, thanks for letting me know. Apologies if I burnt up some of your
valuable cycles on this.

Colin

> 
> 2016-06-02 12:28 GMT+02:00 Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> The default sensor->type case leaks memory allocated to rail. Fix
>> this by free'ing rail before we continue with the next loop iteration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c
>> index 323c79a..79b0eb5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c
>> @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ nvkm_iccsense_oneinit(struct nvkm_subdev *subdev)
>>                         rail->read = nvkm_iccsense_ina3221_read;
>>                         break;
>>                 default:
>> +                       kfree(rail);
>>                         continue;
>>                 }
>>
>> --
>> 2.8.1
>>
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-02 10:28 [PATCH] drm/nouveau/iccsense: fix memory leak on default sensor->type case Colin King
2016-06-03  9:55 ` [Nouveau] " karol herbst
2016-06-03 10:42   ` Colin Ian King [this message]

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