Re: [PATCH 3/10] drivers/media/video/gspca: introduce missing kfree

From: Erik Andrén
Date: Sat Aug 01 2009 - 08:32:42 EST


Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data.
>
> The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @r exists@
> local idexpression x;
> statement S;
> expression E;
> identifier f,f1,l;
> position p1,p2;
> expression *ptr != NULL;
> @@
>
> x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
> ...
> if (x == NULL) S
> <... when != x
> when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
> (
> x->f1 = E
> |
> (x->f1 == NULL || ...)
> |
> f(...,x->f1,...)
> )
> ...>
> (
> return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
> |
> return@p2 ...;
> )
>
> @script:python@
> p1 << r.p1;
> p2 << r.p2;
> @@
>
> print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Erik Andrén <erik.andren@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c b/drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c
> index 7127321..6b89f33 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/video/gspca/m5602/m5602_s5k83a.c
> @@ -178,8 +178,10 @@ sensor_found:
>
> sens_priv->settings =
> kmalloc(sizeof(s32)*ARRAY_SIZE(s5k83a_ctrls), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!sens_priv->settings)
> + if (!sens_priv->settings) {
> + kfree(sens_priv);
> return -ENOMEM;
> + }
>
> sd->gspca_dev.cam.cam_mode = s5k83a_modes;
> sd->gspca_dev.cam.nmodes = ARRAY_SIZE(s5k83a_modes);
> --

Is this patch already merged into a tree that will be merged in the
upstream one or should the v4l-dvb tree merge it?

Best regards,
Erik

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