Re: [PATCH] [staging] iio, adc: Do not leak memory in ad7280_event_handler()

From: Lars-Peter Clausen
Date: Mon Nov 07 2011 - 02:37:45 EST


On 11/06/2011 10:49 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 11/06/2011 09:49 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>> If ad7280_read_all_channels() returns <0 then we'll leak the memory
>> allocated to 'channels' when we return and that variable goes out of
>> scope.
>> This patch fixes the leak.
>>
> Looks right to me - good spot. Only choice is whether a single exit
> point makes sense rather than undwinding it here? Michael?
> I'm happy with either solution, hence the ack.

A similar patch has already been sent last week and should be in Gregs queue.
See: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.iio/2433

- Lars
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