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Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm: Fix memory leak in error path.

From Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm: Fix memory leak in error path.
Date 2016-08-03 16:20 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> wrote:
> If either device_register() or nvdimm_bus_create_ndclt() fails we leak the
> memory allocated for nvdimm_bus. Call kfree(nvdimm_bus) in the error path so
> it's not leaked.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/core.c b/drivers/nvdimm/core.c
> index be89764..8578365 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/core.c
> @@ -366,6 +366,7 @@ struct nvdimm_bus *__nvdimm_bus_register(struct device *parent,
>         return nvdimm_bus;
>   err:
>         put_device(&nvdimm_bus->dev);
> +       kfree(nvdimm_bus);
>         return NULL;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__nvdimm_bus_register);
> --

This routine as moved to drivers/nvdimm/bus.c and I don't think this
is valid since device_register() initialize the reference count, and
the call to put_device() will trigger nvdimm_bus_release().

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Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm: Fix memory leak in error path. Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-08-03 16:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm: Fix memory leak in error path. Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> - 2016-08-03 16:30 +0200

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