[PATCH] driver core:firmware_class:fix memory leak of page pointers array

[Ming Lei]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by:Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 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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Lei Ming
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