linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] regulator: plug of_node leak in regulator

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Date:   Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:15:07 +0300
From:   Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>
To:     Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] regulator: plug of_node leak in
 regulator_register()'s error path

Hi Michał,

On 8/11/20 4:07 AM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> By calling device_initialize() earlier and noting that kfree(NULL) is
> ok, we can save a bit of code in error handling and plug of_node leak.
> Fixed commit already did part of the work.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 9177514ce349 ("regulator: fix memory leak on error path of regulator_register()")
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>

thank you for the patch!

I was worried about a potentially remaining of_node reference leak,
but I was not able to reproduce it on practice without code fuzzing.

The change looks valid and it's a nice simplification.

Acked-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>

--
Best wishes,
Vladimir