From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds this 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> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-mxc.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mxc.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mxc.c index 6bd5072..2642e6b 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mxc.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mxc.c @@ -396,8 +396,10 @@ static int __init mxc_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) pdata->ioaddr = ioremap(res->start, resource_size(res)); clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "ckil"); - if (IS_ERR(clk)) - return PTR_ERR(clk); + if (IS_ERR(clk)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(clk); + goto exit_free_pdata; + } rate = clk_get_rate(clk); clk_put(clk); -- 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