Re: [PATCH] [media] s2255drv: fix memory leak s2255_probe()

From: Sakari Ailus
Date: Tue Apr 15 2014 - 05:33:24 EST


Hi Daeseok,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:49:34PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
>
> smatch says:
> drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c:2246 s2255_probe() warn:
> possible memory leak of 'dev'
>
> Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c b/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c
> index 1d4ba2b..8aca3ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c
> @@ -2243,6 +2243,7 @@ static int s2255_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
> dev->cmdbuf = kzalloc(S2255_CMDBUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (dev->cmdbuf == NULL) {
> s2255_dev_err(&interface->dev, "out of memory\n");
> + kfree(dev);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>

The rest of the function already uses goto and labels for error handling. I
think it'd take adding one more. dev is correctly released in other error
cases.

What do you think?

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Sakari Ailus
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