Re: [PATCH 1/4] drivers/serial/ucc_uart.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak

[Kumar Gala]

On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:

> Add a call to of_node_put in the error handling code following a call to
> of_find_compatible_node or of_find_node_by_type.
> 
> This patch also substantially reorganizes the error handling code in the
> function, to that it is possible first to jump to code that frees qe_port
> and then to jump to code that also puts np.
> 
> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @r exists@
> local idexpression x;
> expression E,E1,E2;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
> *x = 
> (of_find_node_by_path
> |of_find_node_by_name
> |of_find_node_by_phandle
> |of_get_parent
> |of_get_next_parent
> |of_get_next_child
> |of_find_compatible_node
> |of_match_node
> |of_find_node_by_type
> |of_find_node_with_property
> |of_find_matching_node
> |of_parse_phandle
> )(...);
> ...
> if (x == NULL) S
> <... when != x = E
> *if (...) {
>  ... when != of_node_put(x)
>      when != if (...) { ... of_node_put(x); ... }
> (
>  return <+...x...+>;
> |
> *  return ...;
> )
> }
> ...>
> (
> E2 = x;
> |
> of_node_put(x);
> )
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> drivers/serial/ucc_uart.c |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

applied

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