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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