On Tue, 7 Apr 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 03:40:17PM +0300, Giedrius Statkevičius wrote:
> > If one of the allocations of memory for storing a channel information struct
> > fails then free all the successful allocations and return -ENOMEM that gets
> > propogated to the pci layer. Also, remove a bogus skipping in the next
> > part of
> > the initiation if a previous memory allocation failed because we won't
> > execute
> > that if any of the allocations failed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevic...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Only returning -ENOMEM if an allocation failed isn't enough as it was
> > spotted by Sudip so create a new label that frees all successfully allocated
> > stuff and only then returns -ENOMEM. Also, remove a unnecessary check in the
> > next loop.
> >
> > drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c | 11 +++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> > b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> > index ce4187f..60d7e49 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> > @@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ int dgnc_tty_init(struct dgnc_board *brd)
> > * interrupt context, and there are no locks held.
> > */
> > brd->channels[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(*brd->channels[i]),
> > GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!brd->channels[i])
> > + goto err_free_channels;
>
> The comments here say that sometimes brd->channels[] are allocated
> earlier. If that's true then the error handling is not correct. But
> I don't think it is true... Could you investigate and delete the
> comments and unnecessary "if (!brd->channels[i])" NULL check.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
I've checked this earlier and now looked over again and I didn't find any other
place where this is allocated. My thought was that deleting that comment and
that check could be too much for one patch. I'll send a v3.
Su pagarba / Regards,
Giedrius
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