Re: [PATCH 1/2] mpt3sas: Deallocate resources before trying reallocation of the same in _base_allocate_memory_pools()

From: Tomas Henzl
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 11:40:58 EST


On 17.2.2016 12:36, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:55:25PM +0530, Chaitra P B wrote:
>> Deallocates resources before reallocating of the same in retry_allocation
>> path of _base_allocate_memory_pools()
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Suganath prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 7 +++++--
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
>> index f59495b..60c2e86 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
>> @@ -3124,8 +3124,10 @@ _base_release_memory_pools(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc)
>> free_pages((ulong)ioc->scsi_lookup, ioc->scsi_lookup_pages);
>> ioc->scsi_lookup = NULL;
>> }
>> - kfree(ioc->hpr_lookup);
>> - kfree(ioc->internal_lookup);
>> + if (ioc->hpr_lookup)
>> + kfree(ioc->hpr_lookup);
>> + if (ioc->internal_lookup)
>> + kfree(ioc->internal_lookup);
> kfree() can handle NULL pointers as arguments, so checking isn't needed. In
> fact there are coccinelle scripts to check for it (make coccicheck) and it'll
> spawn patches from people "fixing" it. So please get rid of the checks.
>
> Otherwise
>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
>
>> if (ioc->chain_lookup) {
>> for (i = 0; i < ioc->chain_depth; i++) {
>> if (ioc->chain_lookup[i].chain_buffer)
>> @@ -3360,6 +3362,7 @@ _base_allocate_memory_pools(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, int sleep_flag)
>> goto out;
>> retry_sz += 64;
>> ioc->hba_queue_depth = max_request_credit - retry_sz;
>> + _base_release_memory_pools(ioc);
>> goto retry_allocation;

Thanks for posting

Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>