Re: [PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: ti-bandgap.c: Cleaning up memory leak

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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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> 1.7.10.4
> 
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