On March 25, 2015 2:11:48 AM EDT, Larry Finger <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>On 03/24/2015 11:24 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>> Fixes memory leaks in the function,sa11xx_drv_pcmcia_probe for
>> when either clk_get returns a error value  or when we cannot allocate
>> memory  with the pointer sinfo to memory required for this function
>> to continue and return successfully. Further more this was caught by
>> running coccinelle on the lastet kernel tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>   drivers/pcmcia/sa11xx_base.c | 9 +++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/sa11xx_base.c
>b/drivers/pcmcia/sa11xx_base.c
>> index cf6de2c..a95ce73 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pcmcia/sa11xx_base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/sa11xx_base.c
>> @@ -223,14 +223,19 @@ int sa11xx_drv_pcmcia_probe(struct device *dev,
>struct pcmcia_low_level *ops,
>>      struct clk *clk;
>>
>>      clk = clk_get(dev, NULL);
>> -    if (IS_ERR(clk))
>> +    if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
>> +            clk_put(clk);
>>              return PTR_ERR(clk);
>> +    }
>
>If the clk_get() failed, then there is no need to use a clk_put(). In
>addition, 
>clk contains an error code, not a valid pointer. This change would
>crash the 
>system every time clk_get() failed.
>
>>
>>      sa11xx_drv_pcmcia_ops(ops);
>>
>>      sinfo = kzalloc(SKT_DEV_INFO_SIZE(nr), GFP_KERNEL);
>> -    if (!sinfo)
>> +    if (!sinfo) {
>> +            clk_put(clk);
>> +            kfree(sinfo);
>>              return -ENOMEM;
>
>If the memory allocation failed, there is nothing to free. That kfree()
>call is 
>not needed; however, the clk_put() is needed here.
>
>NACK.
>
>Larry
>
>
>> +    }
>>
>>      sinfo->nskt = nr;
>>      sinfo->clk = clk;
>>
Larry, 
Your absolutely right here.  I will send in a v2 with these issues fixed and 
solved. 
Thanks your time, 
Nick 


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