On 2012-07-01 17:20, Devendra Naga wrote:
as comedi_alloc_subdevices may fail, we leak out the memory allocated by alloc_private, and also the I/O regions we requested. free out the private data pointer of the driver, and release the I/O regions Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/fl512.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/fl512.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/fl512.c index 52e6d14..1c372d1 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/fl512.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/fl512.c @@ -135,8 +135,11 @@ static int fl512_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it) #endif ret = comedi_alloc_subdevices(dev, 2); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + kfree(dev->private); + release_region(iobase, FL512_SIZE); return ret; + } /* * this if the definitions of the supdevices, 2 have been defined
As mentioned in my comment for your PATCH 1/2, this is unneccessary. In fact it will resuly in dev->private being freed twice and the I/O region being released twice due to clean-up in the comedi core when fl512_attach() returns an error, which will also call fl512_detach() during the clean-up.
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