linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd-ram: correctly free memory on error path in platram

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Message-Id: <20201119210533.23671-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:05:33 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Baskov Evgeiny <baskov@...ras.ru>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     ldv-project@...uxtesting.org, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd-ram: correctly free memory on error path in platram_probe()

On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 16:05:37 UTC, Baskov Evgeiny wrote:
> If an error happens in mtd_device_parse_register or mtd_device_register,
> memory allocated for struct platram_info is leaked.
> 
> Make platram_probe() call platram_remove() on all error paths
> after struct platram_info allocation to correctly free resources.
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baskov Evgeiny <baskov@...ras.ru>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel