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SubjectRe: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: prevent memory leak in snd_skl_parse_uuids
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On 9/27/19 3:39 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 7:39 PM Pierre-Louis Bossart
> <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> The problem with solution #1 is freeing orphaned pointer. It will work,
>>> but it's simple is not okay from object life time prospective.
>>
>> ?? I don't get your point at all Andy.
>> Two allocations happens in a loop and if the second fails, you free the
>> first and then jump to free everything allocated in the previous
>> iterations. what am I missing?
>
> Two things:
> - one allocation is done with kzalloc(), while the other one with
> devm_kcalloc()
> - due to above the ordering of resources is reversed

Ah yes, I see your point now, sorry for being thick.
Indeed it'd make sense to use devm_ for both allocations, but then the
kfree needs to be removed in the error handling.

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