From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; statement S; expression E; identifier f,f1,l; position p1,p2; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...x...+> } ( x->f1 = E | (x->f1 == NULL || ...) | f(...,x->f1,...) ) ...> ( return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\); | return@p2 ...; ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c index 074905c..3faa42e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c @@ -339,8 +339,10 @@ void __init qe_ic_init(struct device_node *node, unsigned int flags, qe_ic->irqhost = irq_alloc_host(node, IRQ_HOST_MAP_LINEAR, NR_QE_IC_INTS, &qe_ic_host_ops, 0); - if (qe_ic->irqhost == NULL) + if (qe_ic->irqhost == NULL) { + kfree(qe_ic); return; + } qe_ic->regs = ioremap(res.start, res.end - res.start + 1); @@ -352,6 +354,7 @@ void __init qe_ic_init(struct device_node *node, unsigned int flags, if (qe_ic->virq_low == NO_IRQ) { printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to map QE_IC low IRQ\n"); + kfree(qe_ic); return; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html