Re: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: shmobile: R-Mobile: add missing of_node_put

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:18:52 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
>> >                 pd = kzalloc(sizeof(*pd), GFP_KERNEL);
>> > -               if (!pd)
>> > +               if (!pd) {
>> > +                       of_node_put(np);
>> >                         return -ENOMEM;
>> > +               }
>>
>> While technically this patch is correct, the system will be dead anyway if it
>> ever goes OOM at core_initcall() time.
>
> Then BUG_ON(!pd); ?

kzalloc() will scream anyway.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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