Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: r8188eu: proper error handling in rtw_init_drv_sw

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 15 2022 - 10:19:24 EST


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 02:20:47AM +0530, Vihas Makwana wrote:
> The code inside rtw_init_drv_sw() calls various init functions to
> populate the padapter structure and checks for their return values
> respectively.
> But if one of the functions in middle fails then it simply returns
> _FAIL instead of proper logging and calling freeing counterparts
> of previous init functions.
> This leads to various memory leaks and can be found in
> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak if kernel is compiled with DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y.
>
> Fix this and keep the success and error separate.
>
> Fixes: 2b42bd58b321 ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new os_dep dir for
> RTL8188eu driver")

Nit, that needed to be on one line, and no blank line before the next
ones.

I've fixed it up now.

thanks,

greg k-h