Dear Martin, Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I cross-checked other implementations of drivers under media/i2c. I agree with you. Let me send the second version of my patch. Thanks, Wei On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 at 16:50, Martin Kepplinger <martink@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Freitag, dem 24.03.2023 um 17:24 +0000 schrieb Wei Chen: > > hi846_init_controls doesn't clean the allocated ctrl_hdlr > > in case there is a failure, which causes memleak. Add > > v4l2_ctrl_handler_free to free the resource properly. > > > > Signed-off-by: Wei Chen <harperchen1110@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/media/i2c/hi846.c | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/hi846.c b/drivers/media/i2c/hi846.c > > index 7c61873b7198..c45a6511d2c1 100644 > > --- a/drivers/media/i2c/hi846.c > > +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/hi846.c > > @@ -1472,6 +1472,7 @@ static int hi846_init_controls(struct hi846 > > *hi846) > > if (ctrl_hdlr->error) { > > dev_err(&client->dev, "v4l ctrl handler error: %d\n", > > ctrl_hdlr->error); > > + v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(ctrl_hdlr); > > return ctrl_hdlr->error; > > } > > > > hi Wei, thanks for the patch. It looks like I forgot that indeed, but > to me it looks like the subsequent error paths of > v4l2_fwnode_device_parse() and v4l2_ctrl_new_fwnode_properties() would > leak the same thing. > > And since we only assign it to the subdev's ctrl_handler in the success > case later, you could simply add an error label: > > > @@ -1663,21 +1663,26 @@ static int hi846_init_controls(struct hi846 > *hi846) > if (ctrl_hdlr->error) { > dev_err(&client->dev, "v4l ctrl handler error: %d\n", > ctrl_hdlr->error); > - return ctrl_hdlr->error; > + ret = ctrl_hdlr->error; > + goto error; > } > > ret = v4l2_fwnode_device_parse(&client->dev, &props); > if (ret) > - return ret; > + goto error; > > ret = v4l2_ctrl_new_fwnode_properties(ctrl_hdlr, > &hi846_ctrl_ops, > &props); > if (ret) > - return ret; > + goto error; > > hi846->sd.ctrl_handler = ctrl_hdlr; > > return 0; > + > +error: > + v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(ctrl_hdlr); > + return ret; > } > > > what do you think? thanks! > > martin > >