[PATCH] mgag200: Fix a memory leak in mgag200fb_create()

[devendra.aaru]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net> wrote:
> First we allocate memory for 'sysram' with vmalloc() and subsequently
> we allocate for 'info' with framebuffer_alloc(). If the second
> allocation fails we return -ENOMEM, but neglect to vfree() the memory
> we previously allocated for 'sysram', thus leaking it.
>
Hi Jesper,

> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_fb.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_fb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_fb.c
> index 880d336..3c837e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_fb.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_fb.c
> @@ -156,8 +156,10 @@ static int mgag200fb_create(struct mga_fbdev *mfbdev,
>                return -ENOMEM;
>
>        info = framebuffer_alloc(0, device);
> -       if (info == NULL)
> +       if (info == NULL) {
> +               vfree(sysram);
>                return -ENOMEM;
> +       }
>
>        info->par = mfbdev;
>
This looks ok. but what about the error path?
there are more leaks at error paths. mgag200_framebuffer_init failcase
and the functions below like,
fb_alloc_cmap,
alloc_apertures,
?

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