On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:39:22AM +0000, Kalle Valo wrote:

Gen Zhang [off-list ref] wrote:

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In wl1271_probe(), 'glue->core' is allocated by platform_device_alloc(),
when this allocation fails, ENOMEM is returned. However, 'pdev_data'
and 'glue' are allocated by devm_kzalloc() before 'glue->core'. When
platform_device_alloc() returns NULL, we should also free 'pdev_data'
and 'glue' before wl1271_probe() ends to prevent leaking memory.

Similarly, we shoulf free 'pdev_data' when 'glue' is NULL. And we should
free 'pdev_data' and 'glue' when 'glue->reg' is error and when 'ret' is
error.

Further, we should free 'glue->core', 'pdev_data' and 'glue' when this 
function normally ends to prevent leaking memory.

Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <redacted>

Same questions as with similar SDIO patch:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10959049/

Patch set to Changes Requested.

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10959053/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

Thanks for your reply, Kalle. I had debate with Jon about this patch. 
You could kindly refer to lkml: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/23/1547. 
And I don't think a practical conclusion is made there.

Further, I e-mailed Greg K-H about when should we use devm_kmalloc().

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:32:57AM +0800, Gen Zhang wrote:

devm_kmalloc() is used to allocate memory for a driver dev. Comments
above the definition and doc 
(https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt) all
imply that allocated the memory is automatically freed on driver attach,
no matter allocation fail or not. However, I examined the code, and
there are many sites that devm_kfree() is used to free devm_kmalloc().
e.g. hisi_sas_debugfs_init() in drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_main.c.
So I am totally confused about this issue. Can anybody give me some
guidance? When should we use devm_kfree()?

He replied: If you "know" you need to free the memory now, 
call devm_kfree(). If you want to wait for it to be cleaned up latter, 
like normal, then do not call it.

So could please look in to this issue?

Thanks
Gen