[PATCH v2 02/17] drivers/firmware/sdei: Common block for failing path in sdei_event_create()

Gavin Shan gshan at redhat.com
Wed Jul 22 05:57:25 EDT 2020


There are multiple calls of kfree(event) in the failing path of
sdei_event_create() to free the SDEI event. It means we need to
call it again when adding more code in the failing path. It's
prone to miss doing that and introduce memory leakage.

This introduces common block for failing path in sdei_event_create()
to resolve the issue. This shouldn't cause functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
---
v2: Improved commit log to make the movtivation explicit
    Drop the part of changes to reorder the variables
---
 drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c
index be5367f839f2..67da02b3a06e 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c
@@ -190,33 +190,31 @@ static struct sdei_event *sdei_event_create(u32 event_num,
 	lockdep_assert_held(&sdei_events_lock);
 
 	event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!event)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	if (!event) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto fail;
+	}
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->list);
 	event->event_num = event_num;
 
 	err = sdei_api_event_get_info(event_num, SDEI_EVENT_INFO_EV_PRIORITY,
 				      &result);
-	if (err) {
-		kfree(event);
-		return ERR_PTR(err);
-	}
+	if (err)
+		goto fail;
 	event->priority = result;
 
 	err = sdei_api_event_get_info(event_num, SDEI_EVENT_INFO_EV_TYPE,
 				      &result);
-	if (err) {
-		kfree(event);
-		return ERR_PTR(err);
-	}
+	if (err)
+		goto fail;
 	event->type = result;
 
 	if (event->type == SDEI_EVENT_TYPE_SHARED) {
 		reg = kzalloc(sizeof(*reg), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!reg) {
-			kfree(event);
-			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+			err = -ENOMEM;
+			goto fail;
 		}
 
 		reg->event_num = event_num;
@@ -231,8 +229,8 @@ static struct sdei_event *sdei_event_create(u32 event_num,
 
 		regs = alloc_percpu(struct sdei_registered_event);
 		if (!regs) {
-			kfree(event);
-			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+			err = -ENOMEM;
+			goto fail;
 		}
 
 		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -252,6 +250,10 @@ static struct sdei_event *sdei_event_create(u32 event_num,
 	spin_unlock(&sdei_list_lock);
 
 	return event;
+
+fail:
+	kfree(event);
+	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 
 static void sdei_event_destroy_llocked(struct sdei_event *event)
-- 
2.23.0




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