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

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Date:	Thu, 07 May 2015 02:13:57 +0300
From:	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>
To:	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
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 07.05.2015 01:32, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> 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.
> 

No! The other subsequent functions are AFTER (prox_parse_report() error
case is the only BEFORE)
  indio_dev->channels = channels;

and all consequent error cases comes to error_free_dev_mem, where

error_free_dev_mem:
       kfree(indio_dev->channels);

that is equivalent to kfree(channels);

--
Alexey


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