Re: [PATCH] media: saa7134 fix media_dev alloc error path to not free when alloc fails

[Shuah Khan]

On 04/14/2016 03:08 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:31:20 -0600
> Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
>> media_dev alloc error path does kfree when alloc fails. Fix it to not call
>> kfree when media_dev alloc fails.
> 
> No need. kfree(NULL) is OK.

Agreed.

> 
> Adding a label inside a conditional block is ugly.

In this case, if label is in normal path, we will see defined, but not
used warnings when condition isn't defined. We seem to have many such
cases for CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER :(

thanks,
-- Shuah


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