linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: Fix memory leak on DMA setup failure

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 12:33:22 +0100
From:	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
To:	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@...e.cz>
CC:	<linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: Fix memory leak on DMA setup failure



On 20/05/15 12:25, Jon Hunter wrote:
> 
> On 20/05/15 12:21, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> If the call to dmaengine_slave_config() fails, then the DMA buffer will
>> not be freed/unmapped. Fix this by moving the code that stores the
>> address of the buffer in the tegra_uart_port structure to before the
>> call to dmaengine_slave_config().
> 
> By the way, just to be clear, I did try to fix this before [1], but
> failed :-(

To be doubly clear, this is targeted to be applied on top of the
previous patch [1] which is now in linux-next.

Jon

> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/5/802

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