Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx: add missing kfree call in error paths

From: Emil Goode
Date: Thu May 22 2014 - 10:44:55 EST


Hello Dan,

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:50:16PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 03:14:42PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> > We forgot to free pdev->dev.dma_mask as it is not freed
> > by platform_device_put().
> >
>
> Every function which calls imx31_alloc_mx3_camera() is buggy. That
> means that, at best, it is a 2 on Rusty's API rating.
> http://sweng.the-davies.net/Home/rustys-api-design-manifesto
>
> The correct fix is to introduce an imx31_free_mx3_camera() otherwise we
> will just keep introducing these bugs.

I guess I could add this to arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
it would be a very small function though.

Best regards,

Emil Goode
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