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Message-ID: <b40dc34b-85b2-4d7a-e28e-7beea4bb29f6@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:22:22 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Bernard <bernard@...o.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     opensource.kernel@...o.com
Subject: Re: [Resend][PATCH] drivers/thermal: fix potential memleak in error
 branch

On 10/11/2020 09:10, Bernard wrote:
> Function __thermal_cooling_device_register, when device_register
> failed, cdev is not free after error value return, this may
> bring in potential memleak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernard Zhao <bernard@...o.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> index 3d1e0033bf3e..e4bee15dfa1f 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> @@ -1125,6 +1125,7 @@ __thermal_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np,
>  	if (result) {
>  		ida_simple_remove(&thermal_cdev_ida, cdev->id);
>  		put_device(&cdev->device);
> +		kfree(cdev);
>  		return ERR_PTR(result);
>  	}

Please fix the function with the proper error path and the labels.

Thanks

  -- Daniel


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