[mtd-next:master 11/11] drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c:1786:29-32: ERROR: reference preceded by free on line 1784 (fwd)

[Brian Norris]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:00:27PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> It's a false positive from Coccinelle, but I wonder if it's really worth
> it.  Perhaps the code would be simpler with if (ret) { kfree(bdi); return
> ERR_PTR(ret); } return bdi;

I ran your coccinelle scripts before merging, noticed the false
positive, and decided to ignore. But feel free to send the above patch
-- it's probably clearer anyway.

Thanks,
Brian

> julia
> 
> 
> 
> tree:   git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd-next.git master
> head:   445caaa20c4d6da74f426464f90513b81157ad77
> commit: 445caaa20c4d6da74f426464f90513b81157ad77 [11/11] mtd: Allocate bdi objects dynamically
> :::::: branch date: 2 hours ago
> :::::: commit date: 2 hours ago
> 
> >> drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c:1786:29-32: ERROR: reference preceded by free on line 1784
> 
> git remote add mtd-next git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd-next.git
> git remote update mtd-next
> git checkout 445caaa20c4d6da74f426464f90513b81157ad77
> vim +1786 drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> 
> 445caaa2 Steve Longerbeam 2016-08-04  1778  	bdi = kzalloc(sizeof(*bdi), GFP_KERNEL);
> 445caaa2 Steve Longerbeam 2016-08-04  1779  	if (!bdi)
> 445caaa2 Steve Longerbeam 2016-08-04  1780  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> 0661b1ac Jens Axboe       2010-04-27  1781
> 445caaa2 Steve Longerbeam 2016-08-04  1782  	ret = bdi_setup_and_register(bdi, name);
> 0661b1ac Jens Axboe       2010-04-27  1783  	if (ret)
> 445caaa2 Steve Longerbeam 2016-08-04 @1784  		kfree(bdi);
> 0661b1ac Jens Axboe       2010-04-27  1785
> 445caaa2 Steve Longerbeam 2016-08-04 @1786  	return ret ? ERR_PTR(ret) : bdi;
> 694bb7fc Kevin Cernekee   2009-04-03  1787  }
> 0661b1ac Jens Axboe       2010-04-27  1788
> 93e56214 Artem Bityutskiy 2013-03-15  1789  static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_mtd;
> 
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