On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 17:53 +0800, Ching Huang wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 01:33 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 16:17 +0800, Ching Huang wrote:
> > > From: Ching Huang <ching2...@areca.com.tw>
> > > 
> > > Support areca new PCIe to SATA RAID adapter ARC1203
> > 
> > Why add the dma_free_coherent to an old data path?
> > Is that a general bug fix that should be backported?
> 
> That's right. It's need to release the allocated resource for failed
> condition.

Then the dma_free_coherent addition should be a separate patch.

Style trivia:

The goto to another error path like that is odd and
the label is unintelligible.

Ideally error condition handling would use a goto and
a separate and obviously named label.  Use multiple
labels for cases with more complicated unwinding.

Dan Carpenter has written about this several times.

For this use, something like:

        writel(ARCMSR_MESSAGE_START_DRIVER_MODE, reg->drv2iop_doorbell);
        if (!arcmsr_hbaB_wait_msgint_ready(acb)) {
                logging_message(...);
                goto
err_free_resource;
        }
        writel(ARCMSR_MESSAGE_GET_CONFIG, reg->drv2iop_doorbell);
        if (!arcmsr_hbaB_wait_msgint_ready(acb)) {
                logging_message(...);
                goto err_free_resource;
        }

        [success path...]

        return true;

err_free_resource:
        dma_free_coherent(...);

        return false;
}

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