On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 02:16:18PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva wrote:
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c @@ -1026,7 +1026,8 @@ static int gb_lights_light_config(struct gb_lights *glights, u8 id) light->channels_count = conf.channel_count; light->name = kstrndup(conf.name, NAMES_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!light->name)
return -ENOMEM;The clean up in this function is non-existant. :(
Yeah, this have a central point to do the cleanups, gb_lights_release, since we may have other lights already configured at this point, we could cleanup this specific one here, but than would need to make sure all other already configure got clean also.
Central clean up functions never work correctly.
For example, we allocate "cdev->name" in gb_lights_channel_config() before we register the channel later in gb_lights_register_all(glights);. Now imagine that the register fails. Then when we're freeing it in __gb_lights_led_unregister() we see that the ->is_registered is false so we don't kfree(cdev->name).
That's just a small memory leak. But there are going to be tons of little bugs like that.
Anyway it doesn't affect this patch so it's fine.
regards, dan carpenter