[PATCH 1/4] [ARM] davinci_mmc: fix a memory leak

[Axel Lin]

request_mem_region() will call kzalloc to allocate memory for struct resource.
release_resource() unregisters the resource but does not free the allocated
memory, thus use release_mem_region() instead to fix the memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c
index e15547c..7c7d268 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c
@@ -1297,7 +1297,7 @@ cpu_freq_fail:
 		mmc_free_host(mmc);
 
 	if (mem)
-		release_resource(mem);
+		release_mem_region(mem->start, resource_size(mem));
 
 	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "probe err %d\n", ret);
 
@@ -1322,7 +1322,8 @@ static int __exit davinci_mmcsd_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 		iounmap(host->base);
 
-		release_resource(host->mem_res);
+		release_mem_region(host->mem_res->start,
+					resource_size(host->mem_res));
 
 		mmc_free_host(host->mmc);
 	}
-- 
1.7.2



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