Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755071AbbFLMk3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:40:29 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33070 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753458AbbFLMk1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:40:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:40:24 +0200 From: Johannes Thumshirn To: Sreekanth Reddy Cc: "jejb@kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , "Martin K. Petersen" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Sathya Prakash , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Remove redundancy code while freeing the controller resources. Message-ID: <20150612124024.GB16614@c203.arch.suse.de> References: <1434102153-38581-1-git-send-email-Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com> <1434102153-38581-5-git-send-email-Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com> <20150612112826.GC2812@c203.arch.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2035 Lines: 58 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:48:56PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:12:16PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > >> Removed the redundancy code while freeing the controller resources. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy > >> --- > >> drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------- [...] > >> + _base_free_irq(ioc); > >> + _base_disable_msix(ioc); > >> + > >> + if (ioc->msix96_vector) > >> + kfree(ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex); > > > > kfree() already checks for zero or a NULL pointer. > > Sorry Johannes, I didn't get you. If I understand this correctly, you > are suggesting to check for NULL pointer before calling kree() API as > shown below, > > if (ioc->msix96_vector && (ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex != NULL)) > kfree(ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex); Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you don't need the if (ioc->msix96_vector) before the kfree(). ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex should be NULL if ioc->msix96_vector is 0, as far as I can see. In _scsih_probe() you have: shost = scsi_host_alloc(&scsih_driver_template, sizeof(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER)); if (!shost) return -ENODEV; /* init local params */ ioc = shost_priv(shost); and scsi_host_alloc() does a kzalloc() for shost. so ioc->replyPortRegisterIndex is NULL. Or am I thinking wrong here? > > Regards, > Sreekanth -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@suse.de +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N?rnberg GF: F. Imend?rffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG N?rnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/