Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: Fix memory leak on DMA setup failure

From: Alexandre Courbot
Date: Thu May 21 2015 - 01:28:39 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If the call to dmaengine_slave_config() fails, then the DMA buffer will
> not be freed/unmapped. Fix this by moving the code that stores the
> address of the buffer in the tegra_uart_port structure to before the
> call to dmaengine_slave_config().
>
> Reported-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good, we had the same if/else condition appearing three times in
this function for no real reason anyway. This considerably simplifies
the code.

> drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c | 32 +++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

Negative number of lines, another good point for this patch!

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
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