[PATCH] [mtd] fixed faulty check

vimal singh vimal.newwork at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 10:34:22 EDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Stoyan Gaydarov<sgayda2 at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> vimal singh wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Sebastian Andrzej
> Siewior<bigeasy at linutronix.de> wrote:
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> vimal singh wrote:
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> What if you go to 'err_out' due to some other error?? Do not you need
> to free 'info'?
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> We have to and of_flash_remove() takes care of it.
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> Does this mean that the original patch is fine or does it still need the
> kfree? From what i understand when going to err_out it will take care of
> info using of_flash_remove() so then it is not needed in the if check.

Yes.
But I think, you should still correct freeing 'mtd_list' in the label,
when you jump there even before memory gets allocated for that.

-vimal

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> -Stoyan
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> that's correct...
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> The initial patch would be shorter if
>  dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, info);
> would be moved prior the kzalloc()
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> Sebastian
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