Re: [PATCH] tegra_wm9712: Fix a memory leaking bug in tegra_wm9712_driver_probe()

[Gen Zhang]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 09:33:13AM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
> 
> On 24/05/2019 01:50, Gen Zhang wrote:
> > In tegra_wm9712_driver_probe(), 'machine->codec' is allocated by
> > platform_device_alloc(). When it is NULL, function returns ENOMEM.
> > However, 'machine' is allocated by devm_kzalloc() before this site.
> > Thus we should free 'machine' before function ends to prevent memory
> > leaking.
> 
> Memory allocated by devm_xxx() is automatically freed on failure so this
> is not correct.
Thanks for your comments, Jon. But after I examined the code, I am still
confused about the usage of devm_kmalloc(). You can kindly refer to 
hisi_sas_debugfs_init() in drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_main.c. And
devm_kfree() is used to free a memory allocated by devm_kmalloc(). And
I found other situations similar to this in other files.

So, I hope you can give me some guidance on this. Thanks!
> 
> > Further, we should free 'machine->util_data', 'machine->codec' and
> > 'machine' before this function normally ends to prevent memory leaking.
> 
> This is also incorrect. Why would we free all resources after
> successfully initialising the driver?
I re-checked this part, and it is totally incorrect. It should be deleted.

Thanks
Gen