Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754527Ab0HKP7z (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:59:55 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:46510 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753502Ab0HKP7x (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:59:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4C62C8F3.3090405@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:59:47 -0500 From: Patrick Gefre User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julia Lawall Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] drivers/serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2291 Lines: 79 Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other > failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values. > > A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as > follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @@ > expression ret; > expression x,e1,e2,e3; > @@ > > ret = 0 > ... when != ret = e1 > *x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...) > ... when != ret = e2 > if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3 > return ret; > } > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > Signed-off-by: Pat Gefre > --- > I believe this code also leaks earlier instances of port, which are only > referenced by card_ptr, which is freed in the error handling code at the > end of the function. A lot of operations are done on port on each > iteration, however, so I'm not sure whether it is good enough to just free > them. Perhaps there is some way to call ioc3uart_remove? > Yes you are right, there should be something like this for out4: out4: for (phys_port = 0; phys_port < PORTS_PER_CARD; phys_port++) { port = card_ptr->ic_port[phys_port].icp_port; if (port) { pci_free_consistent(port->ip_idd->pdev, TOTAL_RING_BUF_SIZE, (void *)port->ip_cpu_ringbuf, port->ip_dma_ringbuf); kfree(port); } } kfree(card_ptr); return ret; > drivers/serial/ioc3_serial.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/serial/ioc3_serial.c b/drivers/serial/ioc3_serial.c > index 93de907..800c546 100644 > --- a/drivers/serial/ioc3_serial.c > +++ b/drivers/serial/ioc3_serial.c > @@ -2044,6 +2044,7 @@ ioc3uart_probe(struct ioc3_submodule *is, struct ioc3_driver_data *idd) > if (!port) { > printk(KERN_WARNING > "IOC3 serial memory not available for port\n"); > + ret = -ENOMEM; > goto out4; > } > spin_lock_init(&port->ip_lock); -- 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/