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SubjectRe: [PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: ti-bandgap.c: Cleaning up memory leak
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 01:33:51PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> There is a risk for memory leak in when something unexpected happens
> and the function returns.

I don't think there is a risk of memory leak, but wrong address access,
in this case.

>
> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-bandgap.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-bandgap.c b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-bandgap.c
> index 3ab12ee..8401d2e 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-bandgap.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-bandgap.c
> @@ -1155,8 +1155,9 @@ static struct ti_bandgap *ti_bandgap_build(struct platform_device *pdev)
> /* register shadow for context save and restore */
> bgp->regval = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*bgp->regval) *
> bgp->conf->sensor_count, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!bgp) {
> + if (!bgp->regval) {

I agree with this fix.

> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable to allocate mem for driver ref\n");
> + devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, bgp);

But I think this is unnecessary, as it has been managed allocated.

Cheers,

Eduardo

> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> }
>
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