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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:36:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...aro.org>
cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@...com>,
Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, JJ Ding <dgdunix@...il.com>,
linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Abraham Arce <x0066660@...com>,
Syed Rafiuddin <rafiuddin.syed@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: omap4-keypad - don't leak in
omap4_keypad_probe()
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Sachin Kamat wrote:
> On 7 August 2012 23:46, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> wrote:
> > If omap4_keypad_parse_dt() does not return 0 (zero) in
> > omap4_keypad_probe() we will leak the memory we allocated for
> > 'keypad_data' with kzalloc() when we return and the variable goes out
> > of scope.
>
> How about using devm_kzalloc() instead which will take care of freeing
> the memory on detach?
>
Perhaps. I'm not (yet) familiar with how that function works, so I had
not considered it. I'll look into it.
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