Re: [PATCH] drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c: add missing kfree

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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

On 03/10/2012 10:35 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:

From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

The function acpi_processor_add is stored in the ops.add field of a
acpi_driver structure.  This function is then called in
acpi_bus_driver_init.  On failure, this function clears the field
device->driver_data, but does not free its contents.  Thus the free has to
be done by the add function.  In acpi_processor_add, the corresponding
value is pr.  This value is currently freed on failure before storing it in
device->driver_data, but not after.  This free is added in the error
handling code at the end of the function.  The static global variable


"static global variable"?? never heard that one before ;-)
Maybe you meant "per_cpu variable processors"..

processors is also cleared so that it does not refer to a dangling pointer.
processor_device_array is cleared as well.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
This is only compile tested.  In particular, I don't know if it is correct
to add per_cpu(processor_device_array, pr->id) = NULL;.


No, you shouldn't set it to NULL. processor_device_array was added to check
for buggy BIOSes and return gracefully. Check commit cd8e2b48d (and also the
bugzilla link in that commit).

To have a robust check for buggy BIOSes, we must let it be as it is, even if
it is a stale pointer. That way we can still catch subsequent calls to this
function with the same acpi id (because of a buggy BIOS) and take appropriate
actions.

Other than that, the patch looks good to me.

Thanks for the feedback.  Just to be clear, I should keep

+err_clear_processors:
+       per_cpu(processors, pr->id) = NULL;

and just drop:

+       per_cpu(processor_device_array, pr->id) = NULL;

julia


Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
IBM Linux Technology Center

 It has nothing to
do with pr, but it looks like stale information in the case of a failure.

 drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
index 2801b41..9bb0017 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
@@ -536,8 +536,8 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 		return -ENOMEM;

 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&pr->throttling.shared_cpu_map, GFP_KERNEL)) {
-		kfree(pr);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		result = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_free_pr;
 	}

 	pr->handle = device->handle;
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 	dev = get_cpu_device(pr->id);
 	if (sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &dev->kobj, "sysdev")) {
 		result = -EFAULT;
-		goto err_free_cpumask;
+		goto err_clear_processors;
 	}

 	/*
@@ -595,9 +595,13 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_add(struct acpi_device *device)

 err_remove_sysfs:
 	sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "sysdev");
+err_clear_processors:
+	per_cpu(processors, pr->id) = NULL;
+	per_cpu(processor_device_array, pr->id) = NULL;
 err_free_cpumask:
 	free_cpumask_var(pr->throttling.shared_cpu_map);
-
+err_free_pr:
+	kfree(pr);
 	return result;
 }



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