linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Fix forget to free resource in error handling code path in hda_codec_driver

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Date:   Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:36:48 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Fix forget to free resource in error handling code path in hda_codec_driver_probe

On Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:11:22 +0200,
Wang YanQing wrote:
> 
> When hda_codec_driver_probe meet error and return failure, we need
> to free resource with patch_ops.free, or we will get resource leak.

No, the codec driver is responsible to free resources in its error
path.


thanks,

Takashi