An unattached mutex object is not released
on error, thereby orphaning memory.
I stumbled on this when looking at the output of smatch:
drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c:225 acpi_ds_begin_method_execution() error: we
previously assumed 'obj_desc->method.mutex' could be null (see line 209)
which led me to have a look at acpi_ds_create_method_mutex().
Cc: Len Brown <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@sisk.pl>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m....@intel.com>
Cc: Bob Moore <robert.mo...@intel.com>
Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org #2.6.29+
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gard...@canonical.com>
---
This applied to the original version of dsmethod.c which was introduced
in 95b482a8d31116f3f5c2a5089569393234d06385 (2.6.29).
drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c
index aa9a5d4..fe89ea9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ acpi_ds_create_method_mutex(union acpi_operand_object
*method_desc)
status = acpi_os_create_mutex(&mutex_desc->mutex.os_mutex);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+ acpi_ut_delete_object_desc(mutex_desc);
return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
}
--
1.7.9.5
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