Re: [PATCH] EDAC: highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe

[Andre Przywara]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:48:24 +0400
Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

> edac_mc_alloc() allocates memory. The memory are not released
> when devres_open_group() fails, which causes memory leak.
> Call edac_mc_free() in the error handling to fix this.

Yes, this looks correct.

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Andre

> Fixes: a1b01edb2745 ("edac: add support for Calxeda highbank memory controller")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> altr_sdram_probe() performs similar operations,
> I take it as reference.
> ---
>  drivers/edac/highbank_mc_edac.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/highbank_mc_edac.c b/drivers/edac/highbank_mc_edac.c
> index 61b76ec226af..19fba258ae10 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/highbank_mc_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/highbank_mc_edac.c
> @@ -174,8 +174,10 @@ static int highbank_mc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	drvdata = mci->pvt_info;
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, mci);
>  
> -	if (!devres_open_group(&pdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL))
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (!devres_open_group(&pdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> +		res = -ENOMEM;
> +		goto free;
> +	}
>  
>  	r = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
>  	if (!r) {
> @@ -243,6 +245,7 @@ static int highbank_mc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	edac_mc_del_mc(&pdev->dev);
>  err:
>  	devres_release_group(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> +free:
>  	edac_mc_free(mci);
>  	return res;
>  }