Re: [PATCH 7/10] drivers/hid: introduce missing kfree

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Aug 07 2009 - 20:26:57 EST


On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.
>
> The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @r exists@
> local idexpression x;
> statement S;
> expression E;
> identifier f,f1,l;
> position p1,p2;
> expression *ptr != NULL;
> @@
>
> x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
> ...
> if (x == NULL) S
> <... when != x
> when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
> (
> x->f1 = E
> |
> (x->f1 == NULL || ...)
> |
> f(...,x->f1,...)
> )
> ...>
> (
> return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
> |
> return@p2 ...;
> )
>
> @script:python@
> p1 << r.p1;
> p2 << r.p2;
> @@
>
> print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
> index 3e425f7..6abd036 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
> @@ -928,6 +928,7 @@ static int hid_debug_events_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>
> if (!(list->hid_debug_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(char) * HID_DEBUG_BUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL))) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> + kfree(list);
> goto out;
> }
> list->hdev = (struct hid_device *) inode->i_private;
>

Applied, thanks a lot Julia.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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