Re: [PATCH] ACPI fan: fix memleak on acpi_fan_add_fs() failure

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ykzhao wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 18:28 +0800, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>   
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>     
> It sounds reasonable although we don't fail in calling the function of
> acpi_fan_add_fs.
>   

Agreed, this applies to ENOMEM or other weird internal errors only.

>> ---
>>  drivers/acpi/fan.c |    8 ++++++--
>>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/fan.c b/drivers/acpi/fan.c
>> index 947556e..eb1511e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/fan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/fan.c
>> @@ -283,13 +283,17 @@ static int acpi_fan_add(struct acpi_device *device)
>>  
>>  	result = acpi_fan_add_fs(device);
>>  	if (result)
>> -		goto end;
>> +		goto unregister;
>>  
>>  	printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "%s [%s] (%s)\n",
>>  	       acpi_device_name(device), acpi_device_bid(device),
>>  	       !device->power.state ? "on" : "off");
>>     
>
> At the same time we should return directly if the result is zero. 
> But in this patch it seems that it will also remove the sysfs I/F link
> when the result is zero.
>
> Thanks.
>   

Eek, thanks for pointing this out.  I'll send a fixed version
Alan
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