linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt29f_spinand: fix memory leak while programming pages

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Date:   Thu, 2 Aug 2018 10:02:58 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Jheng-Jhong Wu <goodwater.wu@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt29f_spinand: fix memory leak while
 programming pages

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 03:51:30PM +0800, Jheng-Jhong Wu wrote:
> In spinand_program_page(), it uses devm_kzalloc() to allocate memory to
> wbuf dynamically if internal ECC is on, but it doesn't free memory
> allocated to wbuf at the end of this function. Before the spinand device
> is removed and frees memory automatically, programming pages may run many
> times. This leads to a memory leak issue when internal ECC is on.

How is this a memory leak?  The memory will be freed when the struct
device is removed from the system.  How did you test that there was a
leak?

> Changelog:
> 
> v2:
> - use kzalloc()/kfree() to replace devm_kzalloc()/devm_kfree()
> - add some descriptions to commit message

this changelog goes below the --- line.

thanks,

greg k-h