[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] pinctrl: imx: fix memory leak

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Thu May 18 09:15:08 UTC 2017


On 11/05/2017 11:34, Peng Fan wrote:
> Each time set_state is called, a new piece memory will
> be allocated for pin_data, but not freed, this will
> incur memory leak.
> 
> When error, the devm API could not free memory automatically.
> So need call devm_kfree when error.
> 
> Issue reported by Coverity
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>
> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
> ---
>  drivers/pinctrl/nxp/pinctrl-imx.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/nxp/pinctrl-imx.c b/drivers/pinctrl/nxp/pinctrl-imx.c
> index f0321c4..ebc14a3 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/nxp/pinctrl-imx.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/nxp/pinctrl-imx.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static int imx_pinctrl_set_state(struct udevice *dev, struct udevice *config)
>  	if (fdtdec_get_int_array(gd->fdt_blob, node, "fsl,pins",
>  				 pin_data, size >> 2)) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "Error reading pin data.\n");
> +		devm_kfree(dev, pin_data);
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ static int imx_pinctrl_set_state(struct udevice *dev, struct udevice *config)
>  
>  		if ((mux_reg == -1) || (conf_reg == -1)) {
>  			dev_err(dev, "Error mux_reg or conf_reg\n");
> +			devm_kfree(dev, pin_data);
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -166,6 +168,8 @@ static int imx_pinctrl_set_state(struct udevice *dev, struct udevice *config)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	devm_kfree(dev, pin_data);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> 

Applied to u-boot-imx, thanks !

Best regards,
Stefano Babic


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