[PATCH 2/5] driver core: firmware_class:fix memory leak of page pointers array

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 17:45:44 EST


From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
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 f285f44..7376367 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);
--
1.6.3.2

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