[PATCH 2/5] drivers/video/gbefb.c: Eliminate memory leak

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 10:39:04 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

This code is preceded by a call to framebuffer_alloc, which allocates
memory, so this memory should be freed before leaving the function in an
error case. out_release_framebuffer just frees the frame buffer and returns.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
expression E;
identifier f1;
iterator I;
@@

x = framebuffer_alloc(...);
<... when != x
when != true (x == NULL || ...)
when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
when != I (...) { <+...x...+> }
(
x == NULL
|
x == E
|
x->f1
)
...>
* return ...;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/video/gbefb.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/gbefb.c b/drivers/video/gbefb.c
index ca3355e..933899d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/gbefb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/gbefb.c
@@ -1143,8 +1143,10 @@ static int __devinit gbefb_probe(struct platform_device *p_dev)
return -ENOMEM;

#ifndef MODULE
- if (fb_get_options("gbefb", &options))
- return -ENODEV;
+ if (fb_get_options("gbefb", &options)) {
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto out_release_framebuffer;
+ }
gbefb_setup(options);
#endif

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