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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] zram: fix memory freeing in zram_meta_alloc
On (11/08/15 23:32), Geliang Tang wrote:
> When meta->table is NULL, there is no need to vfree it.
>

Hi,

So what's the benefit? It's ok to pass a NULL pointer to vfree(). Why
would we add another label? To avoid a valid call on error path?

-ss

> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> index 81a557c..197a7ad 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(char *pool_name, u64 disksize)
> meta->table = vzalloc(num_pages * sizeof(*meta->table));
> if (!meta->table) {
> pr_err("Error allocating zram address table\n");
> - goto out_error;
> + goto out_free;
> }
>
> meta->mem_pool = zs_create_pool(pool_name, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
> @@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ static struct zram_meta *zram_meta_alloc(char *pool_name, u64 disksize)
>
> out_error:
> vfree(meta->table);
> +out_free:
> kfree(meta);
> return NULL;
> }
> --
> 2.5.0
>
>


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