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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> | 2006-11-25 11:09:30 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-11-25 13:28:33 -0800 |
| commit | 82189b9807e05ea8d1f69de5bf92eaf244a0eb12 (patch) | |
| tree | ecc6f1cf933a249ea1a9a9858a7a90878ec4162b /drivers/base | |
| parent | 533221fbaf001692d5db646f84f7d033fac78cc7 (diff) | |
[PATCH] Fix device_attribute memory leak in device_del
dev->devt_attr is allocated in device_add() but it is never freed in
device_del() in the drivers/base/core.c file (reported by kmemleak).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 68ad11af22b4..002fde46d38d 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -591,8 +591,10 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev) if (parent) klist_del(&dev->knode_parent); - if (dev->devt_attr) + if (dev->devt_attr) { device_remove_file(dev, dev->devt_attr); + kfree(dev->devt_attr); + } if (dev->class) { sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem"); sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, dev->bus_id); |