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/dma/shdma.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/shdma.c b/drivers/dma/shdma.c index b3b065c..0cd0d58 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/shdma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/shdma.c @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static int __init sh_dmae_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) /* get platform data */ if (!pdev->dev.platform_data) - goto shdev_err; + goto platform_err; /* platform data */ memcpy(&shdev->pdata, pdev->dev.platform_data, @@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ eirq_err: free_irq(eirq[ecnt], shdev); rst_err: +platform_err: kfree(shdev); shdev_err: -- 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