linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: hid-sensors: Fix memory leak on failure path in hid_prox

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Date:	Wed, 6 May 2015 19:32:42 -0300
From:	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>
Cc:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ldv-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: hid-sensors: Fix memory leak on failure path in hid_prox_probe()

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Alexey Khoroshilov
<khoroshilov@...ras.ru> wrote:

> Not exactly. Other calls are after
>   indio_dev->channels = channels;
> So,
> error_free_dev_mem:
>         kfree(indio_dev->channels);
> works for them well.

indio_dev is allocated using devm_ , so you don't need to free it.

Your patch is not correct because you only  kfree(channels) in the
prox_parse_report() error case, but you missed the other subsequent
functions.
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