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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
	Willy Tarreau <willy@haproxy.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix memory leak on ->remove()
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:40:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190312144052.GC9224@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdVTKRJJDqtpgExmEmwnYcpF8h2xTtbXwKLnVmVPz0bZqw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 02:47:01PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:18 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > We have to free on ->remove() the allocated resources on ->probe().
> >
> > Fixes: d47d88361fee ("auxdisplay: Add HD44780 Character LCD support")
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Thanks, nice catch!
> 
> (wearing a newer (and hopefully wiser ;-) hat than when I wrote the code)
> 
> While this is correct for the current implementation of struct charlcd_priv,
> this may be a bit fragile.

This patch will be the same in the next version due to possibility to easy
backport.

> What about adding a charlcd_free() wrapper, which can do kfree(to_priv(lcd)),
> and be used in the probe failure path, too?

This has been partially done in the rest of the series, but I got your advise
and will change to use to_priv() in v2. Thanks!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-12 13:18 [PATCH v1 1/4] auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix memory leak on ->remove() Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-12 13:18 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: Introduce charlcd_free() helper Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-12 13:18 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] auxdisplay: panel: Convert to use charlcd_free() Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-12 13:18 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] auxdisplay: hd44780: " Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-12 13:47 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix memory leak on ->remove() Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-12 14:40   ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2019-03-12 15:04     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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