On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:02:56 +0800 Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The memory allocated in the function iio_dummy_evgen_create is not > released if it fails to add the evgen device to device hierarchy. This > may result in a memory leak bug. > > Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Hi. Not sure why the patch doesn't have the standard [PATCH] prefix in the title. This issue has been there a long time, but as the driver is only a testing stub I'm not going to add a fixes tag or mark it for stable. That would just be noise I think. Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for the autobuilders to play with it. Thanks, Jonathan > --- > drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c b/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c > index efd0005..f96c0a3 100644 > --- a/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c > +++ b/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c > @@ -196,7 +196,10 @@ static __init int iio_dummy_evgen_init(void) > return ret; > device_initialize(&iio_evgen_dev); > dev_set_name(&iio_evgen_dev, "iio_evgen"); > - return device_add(&iio_evgen_dev); > + ret = device_add(&iio_evgen_dev); > + if (ret) > + put_device(&iio_evgen_dev); > + return ret; > } > module_init(iio_dummy_evgen_init); >
