Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c: drop iounmap fordevm_ allocated data

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 18:38 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Data allocated with devm_ioremap or devm_ioremap_nocache should not be
> freed using iounmap, because doing so causes a dangling pointer, and a
> subsequent double free.
> 
> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @r@
> expression x;
> @@
> (
>  x = devm_ioremap(...)
> |
>  x = devm_ioremap_nocache(...)
> )
> 
> @@
> expression r.x;
> @@
> * iounmap(x)
> // </smpl>

Thanks Julia,

surely this semantic patch script is worth adding to scripts/coccinelle?
Are you going to take care of this?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c |    6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c
> index 4f10e27..7b889de 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c
> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ ltq_mtd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	if (!ltq_mtd->mtd) {
>  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "probing failed\n");
>  		err = -ENXIO;
> -		goto err_unmap;
> +		goto err_free;
>  	}

Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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