Hi, After fixing the too small memory allocation in cr_backlight_probe() from drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c (commit e3bbb3f05339de438faf54124f25c92e6fe4ac2e) I noticed that the Coverity checker also thought there were a few memory leaks in there. I took a closer look and confirmed that there were indeed several leaks.
At the start of the function we allocate storage for a 'struct cr_panel' and store the pointer in a variable named 'crp'. Then we call pci_get_device() and pci_read_config_byte() and if either of them fail we return without freeing the memory allocated for the 'struct cr_panel'. These two leaks are easy to fix since we don't even use 'crp' for anything up to this point, so I simply moved the allocation further down in the function so it only happens just before we actually need it. A bit further down we call backlight_device_register() and store the result in 'crp->cr_backlight_device'. In case of error we return 'crp->cr_backlight_device' from the function, thus leaking 'crp' itself. The same thing happens with the call to lcd_device_register(). To fix these two leaks I declare two new pointers to hold the return values, so that in case of error we can return the pointer (as before) but without leaking 'crp'. Please consider merging. Note: Due to lack of hardware the patch has only been compile tested. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c b/drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c index 1b3f658..d526907 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c @@ -171,13 +171,11 @@ static struct lcd_ops cr_lcd_ops = { static int cr_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { + struct backlight_device *bdp; + struct lcd_device *ldp; struct cr_panel *crp; u8 dev_en; - crp = kzalloc(sizeof(*crp), GFP_KERNEL); - if (crp == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; - lpc_dev = pci_get_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, CRVML_DEVICE_LPC, NULL); if (!lpc_dev) { @@ -193,27 +191,29 @@ static int cr_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENODEV; } - crp->cr_backlight_device = backlight_device_register("cr-backlight", - &pdev->dev, NULL, - &cr_backlight_ops); - if (IS_ERR(crp->cr_backlight_device)) { + bdp = backlight_device_register("cr-backlight", + &pdev->dev, NULL, + &cr_backlight_ops); + if (IS_ERR(bdp)) { pci_dev_put(lpc_dev); - return PTR_ERR(crp->cr_backlight_device); + return PTR_ERR(bdp); } - crp->cr_lcd_device = lcd_device_register("cr-lcd", - &pdev->dev, - &cr_lcd_ops); - - if (IS_ERR(crp->cr_lcd_device)) { + ldp = lcd_device_register("cr-lcd", &pdev->dev, &cr_lcd_ops); + if (IS_ERR(ldp)) { pci_dev_put(lpc_dev); - return PTR_ERR(crp->cr_backlight_device); + return PTR_ERR(bdp); } pci_read_config_dword(lpc_dev, CRVML_REG_GPIOBAR, &gpio_bar); gpio_bar &= ~0x3F; + crp = kzalloc(sizeof(*crp), GFP_KERNEL); + if (crp == NULL) + return -ENOMEM; + crp->cr_backlight_device = bdp; + crp->cr_lcd_device = ldp; crp->cr_backlight_device->props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK; crp->cr_backlight_device->props.brightness = 0; crp->cr_backlight_device->props.max_brightness = 0; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/