Re: [PATCH] staging, comedi, das16: das16_attach() needs to freeallocated resources on failure

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Nov 07 2010 - 18:46:19 EST


On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Frank Mori Hess wrote:

> On Sunday 07 November 2010, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16.c::das16_attach() there are many
> > potential failure scenarios. However, the driver neglects to free
> > resources it has allocated if failures happen.
>
> This patch appears to be wrong. The driver's detach function will be
> called by the core if the attach function returns with an error. The
> resources are freed there.
>
Ohh, sorry, I did not realize that.
In that case, please disregard this patch.


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