Re: [PATCH] Input: omap4-keypad - don't leak inomap4_keypad_probe()

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Wed Aug 08 2012 - 15:57:50 EST


On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 08, 2012 09:36:51 PM Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Sachin Kamat wrote:
> > > On 7 August 2012 23:46, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > If omap4_keypad_parse_dt() does not return 0 (zero) in
> > > > omap4_keypad_probe() we will leak the memory we allocated for
> > > > 'keypad_data' with kzalloc() when we return and the variable goes out
> > > > of scope.
> > >
> > > How about using devm_kzalloc() instead which will take care of freeing
> > > the memory on detach?
> >
> > Perhaps. I'm not (yet) familiar with how that function works, so I had
> > not considered it. I'll look into it.
>
> Actually please not yet - I guess at some point I'll have to add devm_*
> variants for input_device_* operations but for now I prefer not to mix
> the 2 styles of managing resources.
>
> BTW, I think I need to redo a few patches so I plan on folding this fix
> into the original change.
>
Ok. I'll just leave this alone for now then and let you do whatever you
feel is best :-) .

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