Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: remove misleading err_alloc label

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:01 PM Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In platform_device_register_full() the err_alloc label is
> misleading, we only ever jump to it if the pdev is NULL,
> but it then proceeds to free it, which is a no-op.
>
> Remove the label and simply exit the function immediately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/base/platform.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
> index 1c958eb33ef4..75fccb7dc908 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
> @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_register_full(
>
>         pdev = platform_device_alloc(pdevinfo->name, pdevinfo->id);
>         if (!pdev)
> -               goto err_alloc;
> +               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
>         pdev->dev.parent = pdevinfo->parent;
>         pdev->dev.fwnode = pdevinfo->fwnode;
> @@ -553,8 +553,6 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_register_full(
>  err:
>                 ACPI_COMPANION_SET(&pdev->dev, NULL);
>                 kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
> -
> -err_alloc:
>                 platform_device_put(pdev);
>                 return ERR_PTR(ret);
>         }
> --
> 2.17.2
>