I'm all for fixing memory leaks, but freeing a block while it is still being used is a recipe for hard-to-debug kernel exceptions. 1) There is already a vchi method for freeing the instance, so use it. 2) Only call it on error, and then only before initted is false. Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 0adbfd4694c2 ("staging: bcm2835-audio: fix memory leak in bcm2835_audio_open_connection()") --- drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c index 5f3d8f2..89f96f3 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c @@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static int bcm2835_audio_open_connection(struct bcm2835_alsa_stream *alsa_stream LOG_ERR("%s: failed to connect VCHI instance (ret=%d)\n", __func__, ret); + vchi_disconnect(vchi_instance); ret = -EIO; goto err_free_mem; } @@ -431,7 +432,6 @@ static int bcm2835_audio_open_connection(struct bcm2835_alsa_stream *alsa_stream LOG_DBG(" success !\n"); ret = 0; err_free_mem: - kfree(vchi_instance); return ret; } -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel