linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak

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Date:   Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:30:46 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com, wens@...e.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak

From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Date: Sat,  6 Jan 2018 09:00:09 +0100

> If the probing of the regulator is deferred, the memory allocated by
> 'mdiobus_alloc_size()' will be leaking.
> It should be freed before the next call to 'sun4i_mdio_probe()' which will
> reallocate it.
> 
> Fixes: 4bdcb1dd9feb ("net: Add MDIO bus driver for the Allwinner EMAC")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>

Applied, thank you.