Re: [PATCH 1/1] taging: fbtft: fix memory leak
From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Apr 03 2018 - 09:52:31 EST
There is a typo in the subject. It should be "Staging" instead of
"taging:".
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:14:28PM +0800, Xidong Wang wrote:
> From: Xidong Wang <2711406067@xxxxxx>
>
> In function fbtft_framebuffer_alloc(), the memory allocated by
> framebuffer_alloc() is not released on the error path that txbuflen > 0
> and txbuf, which holds the return value of devm_kzalloc(), is NULL.
> This will result in a memory leak bug.
The txbuf chunk seems to have been dropped. You're right that it needs
to be fixed as well.
if (txbuflen > 0) {
txbuf = devm_kzalloc(par->info->device, txbuflen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!txbuf)
- goto alloc_fail;
+ goto err_info;
regards,
dan carpenter