Re: [PATCH] comedi: drivers: pcl730: Fix potential memory leak in pcl730_attach()

From: shangxiaojing
Date: Tue Nov 22 2022 - 07:24:20 EST




On 2022/11/22 20:18, Ian Abbott wrote:
On 22/11/2022 12:04, Shang XiaoJing wrote:
pcl730_attach() calls comedi_request_region() and won't release the
resource allocated by alloc_resource() when pcl730_attach() failed latter.
Add release_region() to prevent memory leak.

Fixes: 6f9aa29b47f6 ("staging: comedi: pcl730: use comedi_request_region()")
Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl730.c | 8 +++++++-
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl730.c b/drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl730.c
index d2733cd5383d..c463de8a14e1 100644
--- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl730.c
+++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl730.c
@@ -274,8 +274,14 @@ static int pcl730_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
          return ret;
      ret = comedi_alloc_subdevices(dev, board->n_subdevs);
-    if (ret)
+    if (ret) {
+        if (dev->iobase && dev->iolen) {
+            release_region(dev->iobase, dev->iolen);
+            dev->iobase = 0;
+            dev->iolen = 0;
+        }
          return ret;
+    }
      subdev = 0;

This is not needed.  If the 'attach' handler pcl730_attach() returns an error, the 'detach' handler comedi_legacy_detach() will be called to clean up the allocated resources.  All the comedi drivers work that way. (A lot of them have an 'auto_attach' handler instead of an 'attach' handler, but the error handling is basically the same.)


ok, thanks for the advice!

Thanks,
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Shang XiaoJing