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PM / sleep: Fix memory leak in pm_vt_switch_unregister().
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kmemleak reported a memory leak as below.

unreferenced object 0xffff880118f14700 (size 32):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294877401 (age 123.283s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 01 10 00 00 00 ad de 00 02 20 00 00 00 ad de  .......... .....
    00 d4 d2 18 01 88 ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 04 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff814edb1e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
    [<ffffffff811889dc>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1ec/0x260
    [<ffffffff810aba66>] pm_vt_switch_required+0x76/0xb0
    [<ffffffff812f39f5>] register_framebuffer+0x195/0x320
    [<ffffffff8130af18>] efifb_probe+0x718/0x780
    [<ffffffff81391495>] platform_drv_probe+0x45/0xb0
    [<ffffffff8138f407>] driver_probe_device+0x87/0x3a0
    [<ffffffff8138f7f3>] __driver_attach+0x93/0xa0
    [<ffffffff8138d413>] bus_for_each_dev+0x63/0xa0
    [<ffffffff8138ee5e>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
    [<ffffffff8138ea40>] bus_add_driver+0x180/0x250
    [<ffffffff8138fe74>] driver_register+0x64/0xf0
    [<ffffffff813913ba>] __platform_driver_register+0x4a/0x50
    [<ffffffff8191e028>] efifb_driver_init+0x12/0x14
    [<ffffffff8100214a>] do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x1b0
    [<ffffffff818e40e0>] kernel_init_freeable+0x17b/0x201

In pm_vt_switch_required(), "entry" variable is allocated via kmalloc().
So, in pm_vt_switch_unregister(), it needs to call kfree() when object
is deleted from list.

Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa <masami256@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Masami Ichikawa authored and Rafael J. Wysocki committed Dec 21, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ void pm_vt_switch_unregister(struct device *dev)
list_for_each_entry(tmp, &pm_vt_switch_list, head) {
if (tmp->dev == dev) {
list_del(&tmp->head);
kfree(tmp);
break;
}
}
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