Re: [PATCH] bestcomm: no need to free when kzalloc fail

[Libo Chen]

On 2013/5/22 14:06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 12:49 +0800, Libo Chen wrote:
>> ping...
> 
> This is pointless. We routinely avoid adding such crap by having
> the various free(...) routines cope with NULL. You just need to make
> sure you are indeed NULL in the error case.
> 
> Ben.

thanks,

Libo

> 
>> On 2013/5/5 16:38, chenlibo.3@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: Libo Chen <libo.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> There is no need to free bcom_eng if kzalloc fail
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c b/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
>>> index a8c2e29..300ee2d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
>>> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static int mpc52xx_bcom_probe(struct platform_device *op)
>>>  		printk(KERN_ERR DRIVER_NAME ": "
>>>  			"Can't allocate state structure\n");
>>>  		rv = -ENOMEM;
>>> -		goto error_sramclean;
>>> +		goto error_kzalloc;
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>>  	/* Save the node */
>>> @@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ error_release:
>>>  	release_mem_region(res_bcom.start, sizeof(struct mpc52xx_sdma));
>>>  error_sramclean:
>>>  	kfree(bcom_eng);
>>> +error_kzalloc:
>>>  	bcom_sram_cleanup();
>>>  error_ofput:
>>>  	of_node_put(op->dev.of_node);
>>>
>>
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