Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (w83627ehf) Fix memory leak in probe function

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On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:43:25 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> The driver probe function leaked memory if creating the cpu0_vid attribute file
> failed. Fix by converting the driver to use devm_kzalloc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/w83627ehf.c |    7 +++----
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/w83627ehf.c b/drivers/hwmon/w83627ehf.c
> index 378142c..60e929c 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/w83627ehf.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/w83627ehf.c
> @@ -2021,7 +2021,8 @@ static int __devinit w83627ehf_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		goto exit;
>  	}
>  
> -	data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct w83627ehf_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct w83627ehf_data),
> +			    GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!data) {
>  		err = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto exit_release;
> @@ -2514,9 +2515,8 @@ static int __devinit w83627ehf_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  exit_remove:
>  	w83627ehf_device_remove_files(dev);
> -	kfree(data);
> -	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
>  exit_release:
> +	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
>  	release_region(res->start, IOREGION_LENGTH);
>  exit:
>  	return err;
> @@ -2530,7 +2530,6 @@ static int __devexit w83627ehf_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	w83627ehf_device_remove_files(&pdev->dev);
>  	release_region(data->addr, IOREGION_LENGTH);
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
> -	kfree(data);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }

I'm not familiar with devm but this looks correct.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Jean Delvare

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