[PATCH 3/4] drivers/net/can/mscan/mpc5xxx_can.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Sep 2 03:59:55 EST 2010


From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg at grandegger.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:22:07 +0200

> On 08/31/2010 09:10 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:44:00PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>> Add a call to of_node_put in the error handling code following a call to
>>> of_find_matching_node.
>>>
>>> This patch also moves the existing call to of_node_put after the call to
>>> iounmap in the error handling code, to make it possible to jump to
>>> of_node_put without doing iounmap.  These appear to be disjoint operations,
>>> so the ordering doesn't matter.
>>>
>>> This patch furthermore changes the -ENODEV result in the error handling
>>> code for of_find_matching_node to a return of 0, as found in the error
>>> handling code for of_iomap, because the return type of the function is
>>> unsigned.
>>>
>>> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
>>> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
 ...
>>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> 
> Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg at grandegger.com>

Applied.


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