From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/7] ALSA: pcmtest: Fix leak at probe error
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 19:25:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007172533.14667-3-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007172533.14667-1-tiwai@suse.de>
When an error happens at probe of pcmtest driver before
snd_card_register() succeeds, we have to release the card explicitly,
but it's not done, leading to a potential memory leak.
Also, pcmtest driver manages struct pcmtst object unnecessarily
complicatedly by a dynamic allocation and release.
This patch fixes and cleans up the resource management:
- Use card's private_data allocation for struct sndpcmtst at the card
creation, which is released automatically together with the card
- Since the allocation of pcmtest is gone, snd_pcmtst_create() is
rather pointless, so just directly calling snd_pcmtst_new_pcm()
- Use the new auto-clean mechanism to handle the error case at probe.
- Many release handlers became superfluous and dropped
In the end we got a good amount of code reduction.
Fixes: 315a3d57c64c ("ALSA: Implement the new Virtual PCM Test Driver")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
sound/drivers/pcmtest.c | 66 +++++++----------------------------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c b/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c
index fea9580593e6..b4e333b4c438 100644
--- a/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c
+++ b/sound/drivers/pcmtest.c
@@ -446,20 +446,6 @@ static snd_pcm_uframes_t snd_pcmtst_pcm_pointer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substr
return bytes_to_frames(substream->runtime, v_iter->buf_pos);
}
-static int snd_pcmtst_free(struct pcmtst *pcmtst)
-{
- if (!pcmtst)
- return 0;
- kfree(pcmtst);
- return 0;
-}
-
-// These callbacks are required, but empty - all freeing occurs in pdev_remove
-static int snd_pcmtst_dev_free(struct snd_device *device)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-
static void pcmtst_pdev_release(struct device *dev)
{
}
@@ -563,40 +549,9 @@ static int snd_pcmtst_new_pcm(struct pcmtst *pcmtst)
return err;
}
-static int snd_pcmtst_create(struct snd_card *card, struct platform_device *pdev,
- struct pcmtst **r_pcmtst)
-{
- struct pcmtst *pcmtst;
- int err;
- static const struct snd_device_ops ops = {
- .dev_free = snd_pcmtst_dev_free,
- };
-
- pcmtst = kzalloc_obj(*pcmtst);
- if (!pcmtst)
- return -ENOMEM;
- pcmtst->card = card;
- pcmtst->pdev = pdev;
-
- err = snd_device_new(card, SNDRV_DEV_LOWLEVEL, pcmtst, &ops);
- if (err < 0)
- goto _err_free_chip;
-
- err = snd_pcmtst_new_pcm(pcmtst);
- if (err < 0)
- goto _err_free_chip;
-
- *r_pcmtst = pcmtst;
- return 0;
-
-_err_free_chip:
- snd_pcmtst_free(pcmtst);
- return err;
-}
-
static int pcmtst_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
- struct snd_card *card;
+ struct snd_card *card __free(snd_card_free) = NULL;
struct pcmtst *pcmtst;
int err;
@@ -604,10 +559,16 @@ static int pcmtst_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (err)
return err;
- err = snd_devm_card_new(&pdev->dev, index, id, THIS_MODULE, 0, &card);
+ err = snd_devm_card_new(&pdev->dev, index, id, THIS_MODULE,
+ sizeof(*pcmtst), &card);
if (err < 0)
return err;
- err = snd_pcmtst_create(card, pdev, &pcmtst);
+
+ pcmtst = card->private_data;
+ pcmtst->card = card;
+ pcmtst->pdev = pdev;
+
+ err = snd_pcmtst_new_pcm(pcmtst);
if (err < 0)
return err;
@@ -620,17 +581,11 @@ static int pcmtst_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return err;
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pcmtst);
+ card = NULL; /* probe succeeded, don't release as error */
return 0;
}
-static void pdev_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
-{
- struct pcmtst *pcmtst = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
-
- snd_pcmtst_free(pcmtst);
-}
-
static struct platform_device pcmtst_pdev = {
.name = "pcmtest",
.dev.release = pcmtst_pdev_release,
@@ -638,7 +593,6 @@ static struct platform_device pcmtst_pdev = {
static struct platform_driver pcmtst_pdrv = {
.probe = pcmtst_probe,
- .remove = pdev_remove,
.driver = {
.name = "pcmtest",
},
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 17:25 [PATCH v3 0/7] ALSA: Fix yet more bugs reported by Sashiko Takashi Iwai
2026-10-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] ALSA: seq: Fix missing direction and ump_group handling in 32bit compat ioctl Takashi Iwai
2026-10-07 17:25 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2026-10-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] ALSA: pcmtest: Use platform_device_register_simple() Takashi Iwai
2026-10-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] ALSA: info: Fix memory leak at card removal Takashi Iwai
2026-10-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] ALSA: aloop: Avoid a bad mixure of guard() and goto Takashi Iwai
2026-10-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] ALSA: core: Fix leaks at snd_card_init() error paths Takashi Iwai
2026-10-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] ALSA: seq: Don't lose partial read failure Takashi Iwai
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