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SubjectRe: [PATCH] thermal: armada: fix incorrect check for drvdata allocation failure
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Hi Colin,

On 30/07/2018 14:27, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> Currently the drvdata allocation failure is being incorrectly checked by
> checking priv and not drvdata. Fix this and also free priv to fix a
> memory leak.
>
> Detected by Coverity Scan, CID#1472102 ("Logically dead code")
>
> Fixes: c9899c183921 ("thermal: armada: use the resource managed registration helper alternative")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c
> index 4164a5a4e480..b164fd9f21ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/armada_thermal.c
> @@ -611,8 +611,10 @@ static int armada_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> drvdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*drvdata), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!priv)
> + if (!drvdata) {
> + devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, priv);

This is not necessary, resources will be free when the driver is
destroyed after the probe fails.

> return -ENOMEM;
> + }
>
> priv->dev = &pdev->dev;
> priv->data = (struct armada_thermal_data *)match->data;

Thanks for sending this fix. However, another fix was already submitted
for this.

-- Daniel




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