[PATCH][RESEND] static code analysis from cppcheck reports:

From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

[drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c:673]:
  (error) Memory leak: sector_buffer

sector_buffer is not being kfree'd on each call to
broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(), so free it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c
index 1c29bd1..0e5fde1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c

@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static int broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(struct broadsheetfb_par *par,
 		err = broadsheet_spiflash_read_range(par, start_sector_addr,
 						data_start_addr, sector_buffer);
 		if (err)
-			return err;
+			goto out;
 	}
 
 	/* now we copy our data into the right place in the sector buffer */

@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(struct broadsheetfb_par *par,
 		err = broadsheet_spiflash_read_range(par, tail_start_addr,
 			tail_len, sector_buffer + tail_start_addr);
 		if (err)
-			return err;
+			goto out;
 	}
 
 	/* if we got here we have the full sector that we want to rewrite. */

@@ -665,11 +665,13 @@ static int broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(struct broadsheetfb_par *par,
 	/* first erase the sector */
 	err = broadsheet_spiflash_erase_sector(par, start_sector_addr);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto out;
 
 	/* now write it */
 	err = broadsheet_spiflash_write_sector(par, start_sector_addr,
 					sector_buffer, sector_size);
+out:
+	kfree(sector_buffer);
 	return err;
 }
 

-- 
2.1.4

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Colin King [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

[drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c:673]:
  (error) Memory leak: sector_buffer

sector_buffer is not being kfree'd on each call to
broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(), so free it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>

So you can make the box go OOM by repeatedly writing to the
loadstore_waveform device attribute file?
Do we want this applied to -stable?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

On 12/01/15 18:02, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Colin King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

[drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c:673]:
  (error) Memory leak: sector_buffer

sector_buffer is not being kfree'd on each call to
broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(), so free it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>

So you can make the box go OOM by repeatedly writing to the
loadstore_waveform device attribute file?

..well, not quickly.

Do we want this applied to -stable?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

On 12/01/15 17:27, Colin King wrote:

From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

[drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c:673]:
  (error) Memory leak: sector_buffer

sector_buffer is not being kfree'd on each call to
broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(), so free it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks, I've queued this for 3.19 fbdev fixes.

 Tomi