From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kmalloc 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> --- drivers/mfd/davinci_voicecodec.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/davinci_voicecodec.c b/drivers/mfd/davinci_voicecodec.c index 3e75f02..33c923d 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/davinci_voicecodec.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/davinci_voicecodec.c @@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ static int __init davinci_vc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_DMA, 0); if (!res) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no DMA resource\n"); - return -ENXIO; + ret = -ENXIO; + goto fail4; } davinci_vc->davinci_vcif.dma_tx_channel = res->start; @@ -104,7 +105,8 @@ static int __init davinci_vc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_DMA, 1); if (!res) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no DMA resource\n"); - return -ENXIO; + ret = -ENXIO; + goto fail4; } davinci_vc->davinci_vcif.dma_rx_channel = res->start; -- 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