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authorIra Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>2009-05-15 20:59:46 +0400
committerLi Yang <leoli@freescale.com>2009-05-22 12:54:42 +0400
commit2e077f8e8337e52eef3c39c24c31e103b11a0326 (patch)
tree686c9965c8304f5b6d59d3538e989674467ee129 /drivers/dma
parent776c8943f2766f2819fafd88fdfbaf418ecd6e41 (diff)
downloadlinux-2e077f8e8337e52eef3c39c24c31e103b11a0326.tar.xz
fsldma: fix memory leak on error path in fsl_dma_prep_memcpy()
When preparing a memcpy operation, if the kernel fails to allocate memory for a link descriptor after the first link descriptor has already been allocated, then some memory will never be released. Fix the problem by walking the list of allocated descriptors backwards, and freeing the allocated descriptors back into the DMA pool. Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/dma')
-rw-r--r--drivers/dma/fsldma.c18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dma/fsldma.c b/drivers/dma/fsldma.c
index ff9194d7ebb7..15783102bf17 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/fsldma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/fsldma.c
@@ -462,8 +462,8 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *fsl_dma_prep_memcpy(
{
struct fsl_dma_chan *fsl_chan;
struct fsl_desc_sw *first = NULL, *prev = NULL, *new;
+ struct list_head *list;
size_t copy;
- LIST_HEAD(link_chain);
if (!chan)
return NULL;
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *fsl_dma_prep_memcpy(
if (!new) {
dev_err(fsl_chan->dev,
"No free memory for link descriptor\n");
- return NULL;
+ goto fail;
}
#ifdef FSL_DMA_LD_DEBUG
dev_dbg(fsl_chan->dev, "new link desc alloc %p\n", new);
@@ -515,7 +515,19 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *fsl_dma_prep_memcpy(
/* Set End-of-link to the last link descriptor of new list*/
set_ld_eol(fsl_chan, new);
- return first ? &first->async_tx : NULL;
+ return &first->async_tx;
+
+fail:
+ if (!first)
+ return NULL;
+
+ list = &first->async_tx.tx_list;
+ list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(new, prev, list, node) {
+ list_del(&new->node);
+ dma_pool_free(fsl_chan->desc_pool, new, new->async_tx.phys);
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
}
/**