commit 3bb19dd45df33ceb842019c939d4445dac1d8220
author Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> Fri Jul 05 02:27:11 2002 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Fri Jul 05 02:27:11 2002 -0700
tree 7744e27ebc14385c462fe181db6910cf79a32be8
parent e1d160224c822b80b649a1239977a5559f2e8418

[PATCH] drivers/ide/probe.c leaks memory

  drivers/ide/probe.c initializes gd->de_arr and gd->flags twice. Except that
it is unnecessary it also leaks memory.

drivers/ide/probe.c

diff --git a/drivers/ide/probe.c b/drivers/ide/probe.c
index b1b026f..ab7df11 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/probe.c
@@ -1173,18 +1173,6 @@
 	gd->next	= NULL;			/* linked list of major devs */
 	gd->fops        = ide_fops;             /* file operations */
 
-	gd->de_arr	= kmalloc(sizeof(*gd->de_arr) * MAX_DRIVES, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (gd->de_arr)
-		memset(gd->de_arr, 0, sizeof(*gd->de_arr) * MAX_DRIVES);
-	else
-	    goto err_kmalloc_gd_de_arr;
-
-	gd->flags	= kmalloc(sizeof(*gd->flags) * MAX_DRIVES, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (gd->flags)
-		memset(gd->flags, 0, sizeof(*gd->flags) * MAX_DRIVES);
-	else
-	    goto err_kmalloc_gd_flags;
-
 	ch->gd = gd;
 	add_gendisk(gd);