linux-kernel - Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/iccsense: fix memory leak on default sensor->type case

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Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:42:12 +0100
From:	Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:	karol herbst <karolherbst@...il.com>
Cc:	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Martin Peres <martin.peres@...e.fr>,
	Karol Herbst <nouveau@...olherbst.de>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/iccsense: fix memory leak on
 default sensor->type case

On 03/06/16 10:55, karol herbst wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> 
> thanks for pointing this out, but I am quite sure this continue
> statement won't ever be hit, ever.
> 
> check the nvkm_iccsense_create_sensor function. A sensor object will
> only be created for one of those three types and others don't exist.
> I've just added that default statement to shut GCC I think.
> 
> The thing is I reworked that code already and will check if this
> situation still applies there.

OK, thanks for letting me know. Apologies if I burnt up some of your
valuable cycles on this.

Colin

> 
> 2016-06-02 12:28 GMT+02:00 Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> The default sensor->type case leaks memory allocated to rail. Fix
>> this by free'ing rail before we continue with the next loop iteration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c
>> index 323c79a..79b0eb5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/iccsense/base.c
>> @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ nvkm_iccsense_oneinit(struct nvkm_subdev *subdev)
>>                         rail->read = nvkm_iccsense_ina3221_read;
>>                         break;
>>                 default:
>> +                       kfree(rail);
>>                         continue;
>>                 }
>>
>> --
>> 2.8.1
>>
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