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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Check kmalloc return value before use the buffer
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:17:39PM +0800, Steven Liu wrote:
> bigrxbuf_virtual = kmalloc(DMA_TEST_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (bigrxbuf_virtual == NULL) {
> + status = -ENOMEM;
> + kfree(bigtxbuf_virtual);
> + goto out;
> + }

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:27:09AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>> Acked-by: Linus Walleij<linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
>
> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>

NACK. Don't duplicate kfree(), instead do something like

--- a/arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c
@@ -58,12 +58,13 @@ static ssize_t dummy_looptest(struct device *dev,
if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&p_dummy->lock))
return -ERESTARTSYS;

+ status = -ENOMEM;
bigtxbuf_virtual = kmalloc(DMA_TEST_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (bigtxbuf_virtual == NULL) {
- status = -ENOMEM;
+ if (bigtxbuf_virtual == NULL)
goto out;
- }
bigrxbuf_virtual = kmalloc(DMA_TEST_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (bigrxbuf_virtual == NULL)
+ goto out_free_tx;

/* Fill TXBUF with some happy pattern */
memset(bigtxbuf_virtual, 0xAA, DMA_TEST_SIZE);
@@ -215,6 +216,7 @@ static ssize_t dummy_looptest(struct device *dev,

status = sprintf(buf, "loop test complete\n");
kfree(bigrxbuf_virtual);
+ out_free_tx:
kfree(bigtxbuf_virtual);
out:
mutex_unlock(&p_dummy->lock);
-andy


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