Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup fails

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Wed Feb 12 2020 - 06:21:18 EST


On 11.02.20 06:24, Yang Shi wrote:
> When kstrndup fails (returns NULL) there is no memory is allocated by
> kmalloc, so no need to call kfree().

"When kstrndup fails, no memory was allocated and we can exit directly."

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmpressure.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
> index 4bac22f..0590f00 100644
> --- a/mm/vmpressure.c
> +++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
> @@ -371,10 +371,8 @@ int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> int ret = 0;
>
> spec_orig = spec = kstrndup(args, MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!spec) {
> - ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto out;
> - }
> + if (!spec)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> /* Find required level */
> token = strsep(&spec, ",");
>


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb