Re: [PATCH v2] iio: light: hid-sensor-prox: Fix memory leak in probe()/remove()

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On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 19:26 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada
> > <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 11:09 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> >>> 'channels' is allocated via kmemdup, so we need to free it after its usage.
> >>>
> >>> This way we fix the memory leak in both probe and remove paths.
> >>>
> >>> Also, as 'indio_dev' is allocated via devm_iio_device_alloc(), so there is
> >>> no need to call kfree for it.
> >> Where is the kfree for indio_dev..?
> >
> > It is kfree(indio_dev->channels) actually.
> >
> >>>
> >>> Reported-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>> Changes since v1:
> >>> - Always call kfree(channel) after its usage.
> >>>
> >>>  drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c | 14 ++++++--------
> >>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
> >>> index 91ecc46..00ce0f6 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
> >>> @@ -278,16 +278,17 @@ static int hid_prox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>>               return -ENOMEM;
> >>>       }
> >>>
> >>> +     indio_dev->channels = channels;
> >>> +
> >>>       ret = prox_parse_report(pdev, hsdev, channels,
> >>>                               HID_USAGE_SENSOR_PROX, prox_state);
> >>> +     kfree(channels);iio_dev
> >> You are freeing channels so indio_dev->channels will point to junk.
> >> This will be passed to iio_device_register..
> >
> > No, I am freeing channels, not indio_dev->channels.
> 
> Ops, I see the issue.
> 
> I think it is better if we go with the v1 instead.
What is v1?

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