Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] iio: light: hid-sensor-als.c: Fix memory leak in probe()

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On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 15:06 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 'channels' is allocated via kmemdup and it is never freed in the
> subsequent error paths.
> 
> Use 'indio_dev->channels' directly instead, so that we avoid such
> memory leak problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Build-tested only.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> - None
> Changes since v1:
> - Make clear in the commit log that the proble only occurs in the error
> paths
> 
> 
>  drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-als.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-als.c b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-als.c
> index 1609ecd..9d74364 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-als.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-als.c
> @@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ static int hid_als_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	struct iio_dev *indio_dev;
>  	struct als_state *als_state;
>  	struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev = pdev->dev.platform_data;
> -	struct iio_chan_spec *channels;
>  
>  	indio_dev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct als_state));
>  	if (!indio_dev)
> @@ -281,20 +280,21 @@ static int hid_als_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		return ret;
>  	}
>  
> -	channels = kmemdup(als_channels, sizeof(als_channels), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!channels) {
> +	indio_dev->channels = kmemdup(als_channels,
> +				      sizeof(als_channels), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!indio_dev->channels) {
>  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to duplicate channels\n");
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  
> -	ret = als_parse_report(pdev, hsdev, channels,
> -				HID_USAGE_SENSOR_ALS, als_state);
> +	ret = als_parse_report(pdev, hsdev,
> +			       (struct iio_chan_spec *)indio_dev->channels,
> +			       HID_USAGE_SENSOR_ALS, als_state);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to setup attributes\n");
>  		goto error_free_dev_mem;
>  	}
>  
> -	indio_dev->channels = channels;
>  	indio_dev->num_channels =
>  				ARRAY_SIZE(als_channels);
>  	indio_dev->dev.parent = &pdev->dev;


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