Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] nvmem: fix memory leak in error path

From: Srinivas Kandagatla
Date: Wed Feb 19 2020 - 05:52:25 EST




On 19/02/2020 09:22, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
From: Bartosz Golaszewski<bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

We need to free the ida mapping and nvmem struct if the write-protect
GPIO lookup fails.

Fixes: 2a127da461a9 ("nvmem: add support for the write-protect pin")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski<bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvmem/core.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index ef326f243f36..89974e40d250 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -352,8 +352,11 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config)
else
nvmem->wp_gpio = gpiod_get_optional(config->dev, "wp",
GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
- if (IS_ERR(nvmem->wp_gpio))
- return ERR_CAST(nvmem->wp_gpio);
+ if (IS_ERR(nvmem->wp_gpio)) {
+ ida_simple_remove(&nvmem_ida, nvmem->id);
+ kfree(nvmem);
+ return ERR_PTR(rval);

Why are you returning rval here?
This points return value of ida_simple_get and not the actual error code from wp_gpio.

--srini

+ }