Re: [PATCH] regulator: ab8500 - fix the logic to remove alreadyregistered regulators in error path

From: Liam Girdwood
Date: Wed Aug 18 2010 - 09:34:12 EST


On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 21:44 +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> In current implementation, ab8500_regulator_info[0].regulator is not
> unregistered if the error happen at i > 0.
>
> This patch fixes the resource leak and also improves the readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I think this change is better ( in readability ) than simply change "while (i > 0)" to "while (i >= 0)".
>
> drivers/regulator/ab8500.c | 4 +---
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c b/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
> index dc3f1a4..775688e 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
> @@ -368,11 +368,9 @@ static __devinit int ab8500_regulator_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register regulator %s\n",
> info->desc.name);
> /* when we fail, un-register all earlier regulators */
> - i--;
> - while (i > 0) {
> + while (--i >= 0) {
> info = &ab8500_regulator_info[i];
> regulator_unregister(info->regulator);
> - i--;
> }
> return err;
> }

Applied.

Thanks

Liam
--
Freelance Developer, SlimLogic Ltd
ASoC and Voltage Regulator Maintainer.
http://www.slimlogic.co.uk

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