Re: [PATCH][ACPI] Fix acpi_ev_pci_config_region_setup() to avoid memory leak

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:48:03 +0200
Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> In drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c::acpi_ev_pci_config_region_setup() 
> there is a memory leak.
> We may return at "if (!pci_device_node)" without freeing storage 
> previously allocated and assigned to 'pci_id'.
> This patch fixes the leak by freeing the allocated storage in this 
> case.
> 
> Compile tested only...
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c b/drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c
> index 400d90f..10f378b 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c
> @@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ acpi_ev_pci_config_region_setup(acpi_handle handle,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!pci_device_node) {
> +		kfree(pci_id);
>  		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE);
>  	}
>  

We're supposed to use the attractive ACPI_FREE() here.  I'll make that
change.

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