linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: intel-ish-hid: fixes incorrect error handling

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Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:05:20 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
cc:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: intel-ish-hid: fixes incorrect error handling

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, Pan Bian wrote:

> The memory chunk allocated by hid_allocate_device() should be released
> by hid_destroy_device(), not kfree().
> 
> Fixes: 0b28cb4bcb1("HID: intel-ish-hid: ISH HID client driver")
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid.c b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid.c
> index cd23903..e918d78 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid.c
> @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int ishtp_hid_probe(unsigned int cur_hid_dev,
>  err_hid_device:
>  	kfree(hid_data);
>  err_hid_data:
> -	kfree(hid);
> +	hid_destroy_device(hid);
>  	return rv;

Applied to for-4.20/upstream-fixes. Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs