Re: [PATCH] mtd: fix memory leaks in phram_setup

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:37 +0200, JÃrn Engel wrote:
> The only question is: does it make the code better?  The code has
> seven printk/return combinations.  Each of them would chew up 2 more
> lines without the macro.  So phram_setup would grow from 44 to 58
> lines, not nice either.

How about this then...

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
index e09e416..fd2d43f 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
@@ -187,36 +187,41 @@ static int ustrtoul(const char *cp, char
 	return result;
 }
 
-static int parse_num32(uint32_t *num32, const char *token)
+static int parse_num32(uint32_t *num32, const char *token, char *name)
 {
 	char *endp;
 	unsigned long n;
 
 	n = ustrtoul(token, &endp, 0);
-	if (*endp)
+	if (*endp) {
+		ERROR("Illegal %s\n", name);
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	*num32 = n;
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int parse_name(char **pname, const char *token)
+static char *parse_name(const char *token)
 {
 	size_t len;
 	char *name;
 
 	len = strlen(token) + 1;
-	if (len > 64)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+	if (len > 64) {
+		ERROR("name too long");
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
+	}
 
 	name = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!name)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (!name) {
+		ERROR("out of memory");
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
 
 	strcpy(name, token);
 
-	*pname = name;
-	return 0;
+	return name;
 }
 
 
@@ -228,11 +233,6 @@ static inline void kill_final_newline(ch
 }
 
 
-#define parse_err(fmt, args...) do {	\
-	ERROR(fmt , ## args);	\
-	return 0;		\
-} while (0)
-
 static int phram_setup(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
 {
 	char buf[64+12+12], *str = buf;
@@ -242,8 +242,10 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val, 
 	uint32_t len;
 	int i, ret;
 
-	if (strnlen(val, sizeof(buf)) >= sizeof(buf))
-		parse_err("parameter too long\n");
+	if (strnlen(val, sizeof(buf)) >= sizeof(buf)) {
+		ERROR("parameter too long\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	strcpy(str, val);
 	kill_final_newline(str);
@@ -251,30 +253,24 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val, 
 	for (i=0; i<3; i++)
 		token[i] = strsep(&str, ",");
 
-	if (str)
-		parse_err("too many arguments\n");
-
-	if (!token[2])
-		parse_err("not enough arguments\n");
-
-	ret = parse_name(&name, token[0]);
-	if (ret == -ENOMEM)
-		parse_err("out of memory\n");
-	if (ret == -ENOSPC)
-		parse_err("name too long\n");
-	if (ret)
-		return 0;
+	if (str) {
+		ERROR("too many arguments\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
-	ret = parse_num32(&start, token[1]);
-	if (ret) {
-		kfree(name);
-		parse_err("illegal start address\n");
+	if (!token[2]) {
+		ERROR("not enough arguments\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	ret = parse_num32(&len, token[2]);
-	if (ret) {
+	name = prase_name(token[0]);
+	if (IS_ERR(name))
+	    return PTR_ERR(name);
+
+	if ((ret = parse_num32(&start, token[1], "start address")) ||
+	    (ret = parse_num32(&len, token[2], "device length"))) {
 		kfree(name);
-		parse_err("illegal device length\n");
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	register_device(name, start, len);

-- 
dwmw2

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