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Date:	Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:46:36 +0800
From:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] [ARM] pxamci: 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/mmc/host/pxamci.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c
index 7257738..d98e647 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ err_gpio_ro:
 	}
 	if (mmc)
 		mmc_free_host(mmc);
-	release_resource(r);
+	release_mem_region(r->start, SZ_4K);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ static int pxamci_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 		clk_put(host->clk);
 
-		release_resource(host->res);
+		release_mem_region(host->res->start, SZ_4K);
 
 		mmc_free_host(mmc);
 	}
-- 
1.7.2



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