linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] drivers/mfd/88pm860x-i2c.c: introduce missing kfree

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Date:	Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:18:54 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] drivers/mfd/88pm860x-i2c.c: introduce missing
 kfree

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.  At
>> this point, chip has been allocated and some fields have been initialized,
>> but it has not been stored anywhere, so it should be freed before leaving
>> the function.
>
> With this and probably a bunch of the other corrections in this series a
> conversion to devm_kazlloc() would be a more complete fix as it prevents
> people introducing similar missing cleanup paths in future.  Not sure if
> spatch can generate that automatically though...

I saw a patch for that recently, and looked into it a little bit, but I 
wasn't sure what should be done.  What are the criteria for using 
devm_kzalloc?

julia
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