[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: prevent memory leak in snd_skl_parse_uuids

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 7:39 PM Pierre-Louis Bossart
<pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > The problem with solution #1 is freeing orphaned pointer. It will work,
> > but it's simple is not okay from object life time prospective.
>
> ?? I don't get your point at all Andy.
> Two allocations happens in a loop and if the second fails, you free the
> first and then jump to free everything allocated in the previous
> iterations. what am I missing?

Two things:
 - one allocation is done with kzalloc(), while the other one with
devm_kcalloc()
 - due to above the ordering of resources is reversed

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko