Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:05:47 +0300 | From | Riku Voipio <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] leds-pca9532: Fix memory leak and properly handle errors |
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:49:40AM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote: > When the registration fails, we need to release the memory we allocated. Also > we need to save the error from led_classdev_register and propagate it up, else > we'll return success, even if we failed.
> Not-yet-signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> > Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
Driver in general works after this, error path(s) not tested.
Acked-By: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
> --- > drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > I don't have the hardware. Riku, can you please test if it still works as > expected. > > diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c b/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c > index 4064d4f..16af817 100644 > --- a/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c > +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c > @@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ static int pca9532_configure(struct i2c_client *client, > led->ldev.brightness = LED_OFF; > led->ldev.brightness_set = pca9532_set_brightness; > led->ldev.blink_set = pca9532_set_blink; > - if (led_classdev_register(&client->dev, > - &led->ldev) < 0) { > + err = led_classdev_register(&client->dev, &led->ldev); > + if (err < 0) { > dev_err(&client->dev, > "couldn't register LED %s\n", > led->name); > @@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ exit: > } > > return err; > - > } > > static int pca9532_probe(struct i2c_client *client, > @@ -271,12 +270,16 @@ static int pca9532_probe(struct i2c_client *client, > { > struct pca9532_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client); > struct pca9532_platform_data *pca9532_pdata = client->dev.platform_data; > + int err; > + > + if (!pca9532_pdata) > + return -EIO; > > if (!i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter, > I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA)) > return -EIO; > > - data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pca9532_data), GFP_KERNEL); > + data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!data) > return -ENOMEM; > > @@ -285,12 +288,13 @@ static int pca9532_probe(struct i2c_client *client, > data->client = client; > mutex_init(&data->update_lock); > > - if (pca9532_pdata == NULL) > - return -EIO; > - > - pca9532_configure(client, data, pca9532_pdata); > - return 0; > + err = pca9532_configure(client, data, pca9532_pdata); > + if (err) { > + kfree(data); > + i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL); > + } > > + return err; > } > > static int pca9532_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
-- "rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups
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