Re: [PATCH] drivers: of: pci: remove duplicate kfree in of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Feb 11 2015 - 17:51:49 EST


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:58:35AM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> Commit d2be00c0fb5a ("of/pci: Free resources on failure in
> of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources()") fixed the error code path in
> of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() by adding code that runs through the
> resources list to free all resources in it and then calls kfree on the
> bus_range resource pointer to complete the memory deallocation.
> Since the bus_range resource is added to the resources list through
> pci_add_resource, the resource_list_for_each_entry loop in the error
> exit path frees it already and freeing it anew could trigger a double
> free, hence this patch removes the superfluos kfree call on the bus_range
> resource.
>
> Fixes: d2be00c0fb5a ("of/pci: Free resources on failure in of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources()")
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I applied this to for-linus, and will ask Linus to put it in before
v3.20-rc1, thanks!

Rafael, I applied d2be00c0fb5a, where the bug originally came from, but I
see that you fixed it with 5c493df25a0d and the fix got lost because of an
incorrect merge resolution. So if you'd rather take this, just let me
know.

> ---
> drivers/of/of_pci.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_pci.c b/drivers/of/of_pci.c
> index 110fece..62426d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/of_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/of_pci.c
> @@ -229,7 +229,6 @@ parse_failed:
> resource_list_for_each_entry(window, resources)
> kfree(window->res);
> pci_free_resource_list(resources);
> - kfree(bus_range);
> return err;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources);
> --
> 2.2.1
>
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