Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 6/6] PCI: hip: Add handling of HiSilicon HIP PCIe controller errors

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:21:36PM +0100, Shiju Jose wrote:
> +static int hisi_pcie_error_handler_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> +	struct hisi_pcie_error_private *priv;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!priv)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	priv->nb.notifier_call = hisi_pcie_notify_error;
> +	priv->pdev = pdev;
> +	ret = ghes_register_event_notifier(&priv->nb);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s : ghes_register_event_notifier fail\n",
> +			__func__);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int hisi_pcie_error_handler_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> +	struct hisi_pcie_error_private *priv = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +
> +	if (priv)
> +		ghes_unregister_event_notifier(&priv->nb);

Delete this NULL check.  The remove function isn't called on stuff which
hasn't been allocated.

The "never free things which haven't been allocated" rule is a good rule
to keep in mind because it makes error handling so much simpler.

> +
> +	kfree(priv);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

regards,
dan carpenter