The patch titled
memory leakages in driver/acpi/video.c
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fw-memory-leakages-in-driver-acpi-videoc.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
From: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
acpi_video_bus_get_one_device() and other functions in driver/acpi/video.c do
not release allocated memory on remove and on the error path.
Signed-off-by: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxx>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/video.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/acpi/video.c~fw-memory-leakages-in-driver-acpi-videoc drivers/acpi/video.c
--- devel/drivers/acpi/video.c~fw-memory-leakages-in-driver-acpi-videoc 2006-04-18 22:28:22.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/acpi/video.c 2006-04-18 22:28:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ acpi_video_bus_get_one_device(struct acp
struct acpi_video_bus *video)
{
unsigned long device_id;
- int status, result;
+ int status;
struct acpi_video_device *data;
ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE("acpi_video_bus_get_one_device");
@@ -1334,8 +1334,11 @@ acpi_video_bus_get_one_device(struct acp
acpi_video_device_notify,
data);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
- result = -ENODEV;
- goto end;
+ if(data->brightness)
+ kfree(data->brightness->levels);
+ kfree(data->brightness);
+ kfree(data);
+ return_VALUE(-ENODEV);
}
down(&video->sem);
@@ -1347,7 +1350,6 @@ acpi_video_bus_get_one_device(struct acp
return_VALUE(0);
}
- end:
return_VALUE(-ENOENT);
}
@@ -1626,8 +1628,9 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_put_devices(st
printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX
"hhuuhhuu bug in acpi video driver.\n");
+ if (data->brightness);
+ kfree(data->brightness->levels);
kfree(data->brightness);
-
kfree(data);
}
@@ -1766,6 +1769,10 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_add(struct acp
ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY,
acpi_video_bus_notify, video);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+ acpi_video_bus_stop_devices(video);
+ acpi_video_bus_put_devices(video);
+ kfree(video->attached_array);
+ acpi_video_bus_remove_fs(device);
result = -ENODEV;
goto end;
}
@@ -1777,10 +1784,8 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_add(struct acp
video->flags.post ? "yes" : "no");
end:
- if (result) {
- acpi_video_bus_remove_fs(device);
+ if (result)
kfree(video);
- }
return_VALUE(result);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx are
git-acpi.patch
fw-memory-leakages-in-driver-acpi-videoc.patch
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