Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: dsa: Use devm_ prefixed allocations

From: Neil Armstrong
Date: Fri Oct 02 2015 - 09:30:43 EST


On 10/02/2015 03:29 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 10/2/2015 1:48 PM, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>
>> To simplify and prevent memory leakage when unbinding, use
>> the devm_ memory allocation calls.
>>
>> Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> net/dsa/dsa.c | 6 +++---
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa.c b/net/dsa/dsa.c
>> index c59fa5d..98f94c2 100644
>> --- a/net/dsa/dsa.c
>> +++ b/net/dsa/dsa.c
>> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static int dsa_switch_setup_one(struct dsa_switch *ds, struct device *parent)
>> if (ret < 0)
>> goto out;
>>
>> - ds->slave_mii_bus = mdiobus_alloc();
>> + ds->slave_mii_bus = devm_mdiobus_alloc(parent);
>> if (ds->slave_mii_bus == NULL) {
>> ret = -ENOMEM;
>> goto out;
>> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ dsa_switch_setup(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst, int index,
>> /*
>> * Allocate and initialise switch state.
>> */
>> - ds = kzalloc(sizeof(*ds) + drv->priv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + ds = devm_kzalloc(parent, sizeof(*ds) + drv->priv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (ds == NULL)
>> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>>
>> @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static int dsa_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> goto out;
>> }
>>
>> - dst = kzalloc(sizeof(*dst), GFP_KERNEL);
>> + dst = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dst), GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (dst == NULL) {
>> dev_put(dev);
>> ret = -ENOMEM;
>>
>
> Shouldn't you remove the correspoding kfree(), etc. calls?
>
> MBR, Sergei
>
The corresponding kfree() calls were all missing.

Neil
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