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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: jesper.juhl@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ambx1@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][resend] fix resource leak in pnp card_probe()
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 02:58:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060514025838.0a7a846f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31862.1147600089@ocs3>

Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
>
> >+	clink = pnp_alloc(sizeof(*clink));
>  >+	if (!clink)
>  >+		return 0;
>  >+	clink->card = card;
>  >+	clink->driver = drv;
>  >+	clink->pm_state = PMSG_ON;
> 
>  Memory leak of clink on next test.
> 
>  >+
>  >+	if (drv->probe(clink, id) >= 0)
>  >+		return 1;
>  >+
>  >+	/* Recovery */
>  >+	card_for_each_dev(card, dev) {
>  >+		if (dev->card_link == clink)
>  >+			pnp_release_card_device(dev);
>  > 	}
>  >+	kfree(clink);
>  > 	return 0;
>  > }

No, if ->probe succeeded, it took over control of the memory at *clink.

It's all rather twisty and quite undocumented.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-14 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-13 20:35 Jesper Juhl
2006-05-14  9:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-14  9:48   ` Keith Owens
2006-05-14  9:58     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-05-14 10:42   ` Jesper Juhl

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