Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: mvm: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path in 'iwl_mvm_sar_get_wgds_table()'

[Luca Coelho]

On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 12:06 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> We should free 'wgds.pointer' here as done a few lines above in another
> error handling path.
> It was allocated within 'acpi_evaluate_object()'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: rebase after 7fe90e0e3d60 ("iwlwifi: mvm: refactor geo init")

Thanks, Christophe!

I've pushed this to our internal tree and it will eventually reach the
mainline via our normal process.


> Moreovern a comment in '/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c' states that:
> /* [...] Note: The caller should use acpi_os_free to free this
>  * buffer created via ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER.
>  */
> 
> So, at the end of this function:
> 	out_free:
> 		kfree(wgds.pointer);
> should maybe be:
> 	out_free:
> 		acpi_os_free(wgds.pointer);
> 
> If correct, several places should be fixed accordingly.

Thanks for pointing out! I'm about to do some refactoring in this code
and I'll make sure I check the proper way to free the acpi buffer when
doing so.

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Cheers,
Luca.