Re: [PATCH 01/24] mtd/maps/pismo: remove dangling pointer and aleak

[Wolfram Sang]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 02:57:30PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:12:42PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > + exit_free:
> > +	i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
> > +	kfree(prismo);
> 
> And this is a compile error...

[grabbing some brown paper bags]

I'm sorry. That was one of the manually adapted ones :(
Here is the typo corrected:

Subject: [PATCH V2] mtd/maps/pismo: remove dangling pointer and a leak

While looking for drivers which forgot to clear i2c_clientdata before freeing
the data structure it points to, I found that the pismo driver even has a leak
on the probe error path.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c
index 30e12c8..f021018 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ static int __devexit pismo_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
 	/* FIXME: set_vpp needs saner arguments */
 	pismo_setvpp_remove_fix(pismo);
 
+	i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
 	kfree(pismo);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ static int __devinit pismo_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 	ret = pismo_eeprom_read(client, &eeprom, 0, sizeof(eeprom));
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		dev_err(&client->dev, "error reading EEPROM: %d\n", ret);
-		return ret;
+		goto exit_free;
 	}
 
 	dev_info(&client->dev, "%.15s board found\n", eeprom.board);
@@ -282,6 +283,11 @@ static int __devinit pismo_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 				      pdata->cs_addrs[i]);
 
 	return 0;
+
+ exit_free:
+	i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
+	kfree(pismo);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct i2c_device_id pismo_id[] = {

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