[PATCH 3/5] ARM: shmobile: R-Mobile: add missing of_node_put

Julia Lawall julia.lawall at lip6.fr
Mon Oct 12 00:24:27 PDT 2015



On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Hi Julia,
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr> wrote:
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/pm-rmobile.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/pm-rmobile.c
> > @@ -313,8 +313,10 @@ static int __init rmobile_add_pm_domains(void __iomem *base,
> >                 }
> >
> >                 pd = kzalloc(sizeof(*pd), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -               if (!pd)
> > +               if (!pd) {
> > +                       of_node_put(np);
> >                         return -ENOMEM;
> > +               }
>
> While technically this patch is correct, the system will be dead anyway if it
> ever goes OOM at core_initcall() time.

Maybe it would be better for the code to be correct to serve as an example
(or to avoid serving as a bad example) for others?

julia



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