Re: [PATCH] ACPI / EC: Free saved_ec on error exit path

From: Lan Tianyu
Date: Thu Jul 03 2014 - 22:16:08 EST


2014-07-03 7:35 GMT+08:00 Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Smatch detected two memory leaks on saved_ec:
>
> drivers/acpi/ec.c:1070 acpi_ec_ecdt_probe() warn: possible
> memory leak of 'saved_ec'
> drivers/acpi/ec.c:1109 acpi_ec_ecdt_probe() warn: possible
> memory leak of 'saved_ec'
>
> Free saved_ec on these two error exit paths to stop the memory
> leak. Note that saved_ec maybe null, but kfree on null is allowed.
>

Acked-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/ec.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> index ad11ba4..9800f50 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> @@ -1066,8 +1066,10 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
> /* fall through */
> }
>
> - if (EC_FLAGS_SKIP_DSDT_SCAN)
> + if (EC_FLAGS_SKIP_DSDT_SCAN) {
> + kfree(saved_ec);
> return -ENODEV;
> + }
>
> /* This workaround is needed only on some broken machines,
> * which require early EC, but fail to provide ECDT */
> @@ -1105,6 +1107,7 @@ install:
> }
> error:
> kfree(boot_ec);
> + kfree(saved_ec);
> boot_ec = NULL;
> return -ENODEV;
> }
> --
> 2.0.1
>
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Tianyu Lan
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