Re: [PATCH v2] sdio: Fix a memory leaking bug in wl1271_probe()

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Jun 05 2019 - 02:07:44 EST


On 23. 05. 19, 16:44, Gen Zhang wrote:
> In wl1271_probe(), 'glue->core' is allocated by platform_device_alloc(),
> when this allocation fails, ENOMEM is returned. However, 'pdev_data'
> and 'glue' are allocated by devm_kzalloc() before 'glue->core'. When
> platform_device_alloc() returns NULL, we should also free 'pdev_data'
> and 'glue' before wl1271_probe() ends to prevent leaking memory.
>
> Similarly, we should free 'pdev_data' when 'glue' is NULL. And we
> should free 'pdev_data' and 'glue' when 'ret' is error.
>
> Further, we shoulf free 'glue->dev', 'pdev_data' and 'glue' when this
> function normally ends to prevent memory leaking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
> index 4d4b0770..232ce5f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
...
> @@ -380,11 +382,20 @@ static int wl1271_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
> dev_err(glue->dev, "can't add platform device\n");
> goto out_dev_put;
> }
> + platform_device_put(glue->core);
> + devm_kfree(&func->dev, glue);
> + devm_kfree(&func->dev, pdev_data);
> return 0;
>
> out_dev_put:
> platform_device_put(glue->core);
>
> +out_free2:
> + devm_kfree(&func->dev, glue);
> +
> +out_free1:
> + devm_kfree(&func->dev, pdev_data);

Are you aware of purpose of devm allocations?

thanks,
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js
suse labs