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Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:35:10 +0800
From:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: [PATCH] rtc: rtc-sh - fix a memory leak

request_mem_region() will call kzalloc to allocate memory for struct resource.
release_resource() unregisters the resource but does not free the allocated
memory, thus use release_mem_region() instead to fix the memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c
index 5efbd59..06e41ed 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-sh.c
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ err_unmap:
 	clk_put(rtc->clk);
 	iounmap(rtc->regbase);
 err_badmap:
-	release_resource(rtc->res);
+	release_mem_region(rtc->res->start, rtc->regsize);
 err_badres:
 	kfree(rtc);
 
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ static int __exit sh_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	iounmap(rtc->regbase);
-	release_resource(rtc->res);
+	release_mem_region(rtc->res->start, rtc->regsize);
 
 	clk_disable(rtc->clk);
 	clk_put(rtc->clk);
-- 
1.7.2



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