Re: [PATCH 07/12] perf kvm: handle realloc failures

[David Ahern]

On 10/8/12 2:19 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:17:31AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> > Save previous pointer and free on failure.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > +	prev = event->vcpu;
> >   	event->vcpu = realloc(event->vcpu,
> >   			      event->max_vcpu * sizeof(*event->vcpu));
> >   	if (!event->vcpu) {
> > +		free(prev);
> >   		pr_err("Not enough memory\n");
>
> Unfamiliar way of doing it, usually we do it like:
>
>    	vcpu = realloc(event->vcpu, event->max_vcpu * sizeof(*event->vcpu));
>
> 	if (!vcpu) {
>    		pr_err("Not enough memory\n");
> 		return -1;
> 	}
>
> 	event->vcpu = vcpu;
>
> I.e. we don't trow away the old value of event->vcpu.

right. Command is going to exit on a failure, so leaving the old value 
does not have any impact. I can leave the old if you want it for 
consistency.

David

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