On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 02:57:30PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:12:42PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > + exit_free: > > + i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL); > > + kfree(prismo); > > And this is a compile error... [grabbing some brown paper bags] I'm sorry. That was one of the manually adapted ones :( Here is the typo corrected: Subject: [PATCH V2] mtd/maps/pismo: remove dangling pointer and a leak While looking for drivers which forgot to clear i2c_clientdata before freeing the data structure it points to, I found that the pismo driver even has a leak on the probe error path. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c index 30e12c8..f021018 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/pismo.c @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ static int __devexit pismo_remove(struct i2c_client *client) /* FIXME: set_vpp needs saner arguments */ pismo_setvpp_remove_fix(pismo); + i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL); kfree(pismo); return 0; @@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ static int __devinit pismo_probe(struct i2c_client *client, ret = pismo_eeprom_read(client, &eeprom, 0, sizeof(eeprom)); if (ret < 0) { dev_err(&client->dev, "error reading EEPROM: %d\n", ret); - return ret; + goto exit_free; } dev_info(&client->dev, "%.15s board found\n", eeprom.board); @@ -282,6 +283,11 @@ static int __devinit pismo_probe(struct i2c_client *client, pdata->cs_addrs[i]); return 0; + + exit_free: + i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL); + kfree(pismo); + return ret; } static const struct i2c_device_id pismo_id[] = { -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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