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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Oct 12 00:29:10 PDT 2015


Dear Geert Uytterhoeven,

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:18:52 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> >                 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.

Then BUG_ON(!pd); ?

Thomas
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