Using kfree to free data allocated with devm_kzalloc causes double frees.
The Coccinelle semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
// <smpl>
@@
expression x;
@@
x = devm_kzalloc(...)
...
?-kfree(x);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr>
---
drivers/usb/phy/phy-gpio-vbus-usb.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/phy/phy-gpio-vbus-usb.c
b/drivers/usb/phy/phy-gpio-vbus-usb.c
index ea9e705..f4b14bd 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/phy/phy-gpio-vbus-usb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/phy/phy-gpio-vbus-usb.c
@@ -260,10 +260,8 @@ static int gpio_vbus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
gpio_vbus->phy.otg = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct usb_otg),
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!gpio_vbus->phy.otg) {
- kfree(gpio_vbus);
+ if (!gpio_vbus->phy.otg)
return -ENOMEM;
- }
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, gpio_vbus);
gpio_vbus->dev = &pdev->dev;
--
1.9.1
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