Re: [EXT4 set 6][PATCH 1/1]Export jbd stats through procfs

From: Mingming Cao
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 01:22:01 EST


On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 21:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:21:49 -0400 "CÃdric Augonnet" <cedric.augonnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 2007/7/10, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > > > + size = sizeof(struct transaction_stats_s);
> > > > + s->stats = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > + if (s == NULL) {
> > > > + kfree(s);
> > > > + return -EIO;
> > >
> > > ENOMEM
> >
> > I'm sorry if i missed some point, but i just don't see the use of such
> > a kfree here, not sure Andrew meant you should only return ENOMEM
> > instead, but why issuing those kfree(NULL), instead of just a if (!s)
> > return ENOMEM ?
> >
>
> You found a bug. It was meant to be
>
> if (s->stats == NULL)
>
>

Thanks, I will make sure this get fixed in ext4 patch queue.

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