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/ipic.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c index 69e2630..040144e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c @@ -735,8 +735,10 @@ struct ipic * __init ipic_init(struct device_node *node, unsigned int flags) ipic->irqhost = irq_alloc_host(node, IRQ_HOST_MAP_LINEAR, NR_IPIC_INTS, &ipic_host_ops, 0); - if (ipic->irqhost == NULL) + if (ipic->irqhost == NULL) { + kfree(ipic); return NULL; + } ipic->regs = ioremap(res.start, res.end - res.start + 1); -- 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
