I'm all for fixing memory leaks, but freeing a block while it is still
being used is a recipe for hard-to-debug kernel exceptions.
1) There is already a vchi method for freeing the instance, so use it.
2) Only call it on error, and then only before initted is false.
Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <p...@raspberrypi.org>
Fixes: 0adbfd4694c2 ("staging: bcm2835-audio: fix memory leak in
bcm2835_audio_open_connection()")
---
drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c
b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c
index 5f3d8f2..89f96f3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static int bcm2835_audio_open_connection(struct
bcm2835_alsa_stream *alsa_stream
LOG_ERR("%s: failed to connect VCHI instance
(ret=%d)\n",
__func__, ret);
+ vchi_disconnect(vchi_instance);
ret = -EIO;
goto err_free_mem;
}
@@ -431,7 +432,6 @@ static int bcm2835_audio_open_connection(struct
bcm2835_alsa_stream *alsa_stream
LOG_DBG(" success !\n");
ret = 0;
err_free_mem:
- kfree(vchi_instance);
return ret;
}
--
1.9.1
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