[PATCH 8/9] arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c: add missing kfree

[Tabi Timur-B04825]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk> wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c
> index af1a5df..b6731e4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ehv_pic.c
> @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ void __init ehv_pic_init(void)
>
>        if (!ehv_pic->irqhost) {
>                of_node_put(np);
> +               kfree(ehv_pic);
>                return;
>        }

Although the fix is correct, I think there is another bug in this
function.  'np' is not released when the function finishes
successfully.   I've looked at other functions that use
irq_alloc_host(), and most of them do the same thing: they don't call
of_node_put() on the device node pointer.  The only exception I've
found is mpc5121_ads_cpld_pic_init().

Ben, Kumar: am I missing something?  irq_alloc_host() calls of_node_get():

	host->of_node = of_node_get(of_node);

so doesn't that mean that the caller of irq_alloc_host() should
release the device node pointer?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale