linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: Free memory obtained by kzalloc

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Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 12:54:35 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Free memory obtained by kzalloc

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com> wrote:
> Here kfree() is taking NULL. So moving 'dev = NULL' after kfree().

Ouch! Does system_root_device_release() code ring a bell? How did you test this?

When you start eventually looking to the code?

NAK.

> diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
> index ef61833..ccb64a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
> @@ -1170,9 +1170,9 @@ static int subsys_register(struct bus_type *subsys,
>
>  err_dev_reg:
>         put_device(dev);
> -       dev = NULL;
>  err_name:
>         kfree(dev);
> +       dev = NULL;
>  err_dev:
>         bus_unregister(subsys);
>         return err;



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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko