Re: [patch 1/2] [SCSI] target: remove an unused variable

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 18:43:19 EST


On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 08:57 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We never use "fabric_cg" and also we leak it on the success path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
>

Hi Dan,

Thanks for catching this left over allocation from v3.x days before
target_core_register_fabric() accepted the fabric module's top level
struct config_group.

Committed as 7e7d89f6cf into lio-core-2.6.git.

Best Regards,

--nab

> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> index 18d15ff..d7b977d 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> @@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ static struct config_group *target_core_register_fabric(
> struct config_group *group,
> const char *name)
> {
> - struct config_group *fabric_cg;
> struct target_fabric_configfs *tf;
> int ret;
>
> @@ -131,9 +130,6 @@ static struct config_group *target_core_register_fabric(
> if (transport_subsystem_check_init() < 0)
> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> - fabric_cg = kzalloc(sizeof(struct config_group), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!(fabric_cg))
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> /*
> * Below are some hardcoded request_module() calls to automatically
> * local fabric modules when the following is called:
> @@ -155,7 +151,6 @@ static struct config_group *target_core_register_fabric(
> if (ret < 0) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "request_module() failed for"
> " iscsi_target_mod.ko: %d\n", ret);
> - kfree(fabric_cg);
> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> }
> } else if (!(strncmp(name, "loopback", 8))) {
> @@ -169,7 +164,6 @@ static struct config_group *target_core_register_fabric(
> if (ret < 0) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "request_module() failed for"
> " tcm_loop.ko: %d\n", ret);
> - kfree(fabric_cg);
> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> }
> }
> @@ -178,7 +172,6 @@ static struct config_group *target_core_register_fabric(
> if (!(tf)) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "target_core_get_fabric() failed for %s\n",
> name);
> - kfree(fabric_cg);
> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> }
> printk(KERN_INFO "Target_Core_ConfigFS: REGISTER -> Located fabric:"

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