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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] pwm: Mark free pwm IDs as used in alloc_pwms()
On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:17:08AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 10:15:14PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > alloc_pwms() only identified a free range of IDs and this range was marked
> > as used only later by pwmchip_add(). Instead let alloc_pwms() already do
> > the marking (which makes the function actually allocating the range and so
> > justifies the function name). This way access to the allocated_pwms
> > bitfield is limited to two functions only.
>
> This change is a bit fragile in a long term. Currently we know that we have
> no points of error after alloc_pwms() in ->probe(), but if somebody misses
> this in the future, we became to the case where bitmap might be exhausted
> (kinda resource leakage).

That is always the case for a function allocating resources. If you add
an error path after the (previously) last allocation, you have to care
for that.

Best regards
Uwe

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