Re: [PATCH 00/16] usb: gadget: amd5536udc: fix memory leaks

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Sun Sep 20 2015 - 12:17:30 EST


Hi,

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 09:24:38AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 01:39:54PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 08:42:47PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > This amd5536udc was a complete mess. The major problems that i could
> > > find are:
> > >
> > > 1) if udc_pci_probe() fails in any stage then it just calls the
> > > udc_pci_remove() to handle error. And udc_pci_remove() works with
> > > struct udc *dev which we get from pci_get_drvdata(pdev). But we do the
> > > pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev) almost at the end of probe. So basically
> > > incase of error we are handling the error by dereferencing a NULL
> > > pointer.
> > >
> > > 2) udc_pci_remove() does a BUG_ON(dev->driver != NULL) and dev->driver
> > > will be set only if probe is success. So that means if probe fails then
> > > probe will call udc_pci_remove() for error handling and udc_pci_remove()
> > > will inturn halts the kernel by calling BUG().
> > >
> > > And apart from these numerous memory leaks and not releasing of
> > > resources. Here comes a rewrite of few of the functions in an
> > > attempt to fix these.
> >
> > run checkpatch.pl and try again
> I know checkpatch gives warning on some of my patches but as the warning
> was not related to the part I have modified so I have not done any thing
> with them as they will become unrelated changes than what is mentioned
> in the commit log.
> Anyways, I will fix up all the warnings and send v2. But do you want me
> to also fix the checkpatch warnings in those patch where functions are
> rearranged? Because in those patches functions were just moved and there
> was no change in the body of the function.

sure, just add a note "while at that, also fix checkpatch warnings"

--
balbi

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