Re: [PATCH] staging: bcm2835: Fix a memory leak in error handling path

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Feb 24 2017 - 14:59:17 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:37:30PM +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
>
> Am 19.02.2017 um 11:34 schrieb Christophe JAILLET:
> >If 'kzalloc()' fails, we should release resources allocated so far, just as
> >done in all other cases in this function.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >---
> >Not sure that the error handling path is correct.
> >Is 'gdev[0]' freed? Should it be?
>

Yes, but I already sent a patch to fix this and your leak as well and
Greg merged it.

> sorry, didn't checked your patch yet.

It takes like 30 seconds to review this patch. Do you use mutt? I have
a macro that applies patches and loads vim at the right line.

regards,
dan carpenter