Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: remove redundant ffs_data_get()

From: Robert Baldyga
Date: Fri Oct 10 2014 - 01:17:20 EST


On 10/09/2014 04:21 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 09:41:16AM +0200, Robert Baldyga wrote:
>> During FunctionFS bind, ffs_data_get() function was called twice
>> (in functionfs_bind() and in ffs_do_functionfs_bind()), while on unbind
>> ffs_data_put() was called once (in functionfs_unbind() function).
>> In result refcount never reached value 0, and ffs memory resources has
>> been never released.
>>
>> Since ffs_data_get() call in ffs_do_functionfs_bind() is redundant
>> and not neccessary, we remove it to have equal number of gets ans puts,
>> and free allocated memory after refcount reach 0.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <r.baldyga@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Which commit is this fixing ? does it deserve a stable backport ? How
> far back ?
>

The problem starts with commit 5920cda627688c3229fd63157ff031f3f174175e
[usb: gadget: FunctionFS: convert to new function interface with
backward compatibility].

This bug causes memory leak so I think it should be in stable too.

Thanks,
Robert Baldyga
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