Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jul 2011 14:14:51 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Don't leak info in adm1275_probe |
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On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 04:04:29PM -0400, Jesper Juhl wrote: > In drivers/hwmon/adm1275.c:adm1275_probe() we'll leak the memory > allocated to 'info' if the call to i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() returns > less than zero. > > This patch fixes the leak by simply calling kfree(info) when needed. > I also considered just moving the 'info' memory allocation below the > call to i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(), but I was not sure if it mattered > to get the -ENOMEM first in that case or if it would be bad to first > have a successful i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() call and then fail the > mem alloc, so I stuck with the safe option. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Hi Jesper,
the fix for this problem is already enqueued as "hwmon: (adm1275) Free allocated memory if probe function fails".
There is also a second error condition, which occurs if pmbus_do_probe() returns an error.
Thanks, Guenter
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