Re: [PATCH] input: da9052: fix mem leak in da9052_onkey_probe()

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Apr 11 2012 - 17:22:54 EST


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:56:10PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> If, in drivers/input/misc/da9052_onkey.c::da9052_onkey_probe(), the
> call to either kzalloc() or input_allocate_device() fails then we will
> return -ENOMEM from the function without freeing the other allocation
> that may have succeeded, thus we leak either the memory allocated for
> 'onkey' or the memory allocated for 'input_dev' if one succeeds and
> the other fails.
> Fix that by jumping to the 'err_free_mem' label at the end of the
> function that properly cleans up rather than returning directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I must have messed up error hanlding path when collapsing the 2 memory
allocations; applied, thank Jesper.

> ---
> drivers/input/misc/da9052_onkey.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/da9052_onkey.c b/drivers/input/misc/da9052_onkey.c
> index 34aebb8..3c843cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/misc/da9052_onkey.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/misc/da9052_onkey.c
> @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static int __devinit da9052_onkey_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> input_dev = input_allocate_device();
> if (!onkey || !input_dev) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to allocate memory\n");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + error = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_free_mem;
> }
>
> onkey->input = input_dev;
> --
> 1.7.10
>
>
> --
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>

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Dmitry
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