于 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:36:49 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 写道:

quoted text
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:20:48AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > 2009/7/9  <tom.leiming@gmail.com>:
> > > From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > The page pointers array is allocated in fw_realloc_buffer()
> > > called by firmware_data_write(), and should be freed in release
> > > function of firmware device.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> > > Reported-by:Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > > Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > This patch is against Catalin Marinas's patch:
> > 	[PATCH] Free struct device in fw_dev_release()
> 
> Hm, I never got a final version of that patch, care to send it to me?

It is the latest version and now is against linus mainline.
Thanks.

From 50603673f5c68eb843584e65cc9930919910f98a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:56:52 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] driver core:firmware_class:fix memory leak of page pointers array

The page pointers array is allocated in fw_realloc_buffer() called by
firmware_data_write(), and should be freed in release function of firmware
device.

Signed-off-by:Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reported-by:Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
---
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index fc46653..2643366 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -180,7 +180,6 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_store(struct device *dev,
 				goto err;
 			}
 			/* Pages will be freed by vfree() */
-			fw_priv->pages = NULL;
 			fw_priv->page_array_size = 0;
 			fw_priv->nr_pages = 0;
 			complete(&fw_priv->completion);
-- 
1.6.0.GIT





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