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authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>2008-11-19 15:36:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-11-19 18:49:59 -0800
commitc0d861afa5c986f7fe23647fbe411cd300f7c927 (patch)
tree16a59ba410b80782eceaad7c63ad571aa4d99020 /drivers/video/backlight
parentf9454548e17cd56bad081bd7d55a09b001950cbb (diff)
drivers/video/backlight/da903x.c: introduce missing kfree
Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; statement S; expression E; identifier f,l; position p1,p2; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ ( if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S | x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S ) <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...x...+> } x->f = E ...> ( return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\); | return@p2 ...; ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/backlight')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/backlight/da903x.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/da903x.c b/drivers/video/backlight/da903x.c
index 242c3825016..75388b95943 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/da903x.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/da903x.c
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ static int da903x_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
default:
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "invalid backlight device ID(%d)\n",
pdev->id);
+ kfree(data);
return -EINVAL;
}