Re: [PATCH 1/2] ubifs: Fix potential memory leaks while iterating entries

From: Markus Elfring
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 08:01:17 EST


> Fix some potential memory leaks in error handling branches while
> iterating xattr entries.

Such information is useful.


> For example, function ubifs_tnc_remove_ino()
> forgets to free pxent if it exists. Similar problems also exist in
> ubifs_purge_xattrs(), ubifs_add_orphan() and ubifs_jnl_write_inode().

Can an other wording variant be a bit nicer?


I suggest to avoid the specification of duplicate function calls
(also for the desired exception handling).
Will it be helpful to add a few jump targets?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst?id=3d77e6a8804abcc0504c904bd6e5cdf3a5cf8162#n455

Regards,
Markus