The patch titled
drivers/edac: introduce missing kfree
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-edac-introduce-missing-kfree.patch
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Subject: drivers/edac: introduce missing kfree
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>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c~drivers-edac-introduce-missing-kfree drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
--- a/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c~drivers-edac-introduce-missing-kfree
+++ a/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
@@ -1215,8 +1215,10 @@ int i7core_get_onedevice(struct pci_dev
return -ENOMEM;
i7core_dev->pdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*i7core_dev->pdev) * n_devs,
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!i7core_dev->pdev)
+ if (!i7core_dev->pdev) {
+ kfree(i7core_dev);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
i7core_dev->socket = socket;
i7core_dev->n_devs = n_devs;
list_add_tail(&i7core_dev->list, &i7core_edac_list);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
drivers-media-video-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch
drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch
drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.patch
drivers-message-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch
drivers-block-dac960c-use-dac960_v2_controller.patch
drivers-cpuidle-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch
drivers-mmc-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch
drivers-video-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch
drivers-char-ipmi-use-kcs_idle_state.patch
drivers-media-video-introduce-missing-kfree.patch
drivers-edac-introduce-missing-kfree.patch
drivers-usb-host-xhci-memc-introduce-missing-kfree.patch
drivers-usb-host-ehci-omapc-introduce-missing-kfree.patch
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