This one is not right. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:08:53PM -0400, Lidza Louina wrote: > This patch changes error handling to the > tty_driver allocations in dgap_tty_register. > > Before, it didn't handle the possibility of an > alloc_tty_driver failure. This patch makes > dgap_register_driver return -ENOMEM if that fails. > > This patch also adds handling to the possibility that > the brd->SerialDriver->ttys or brd->PrintDriver->ttys > allocation will fail. It now calls put_tty_driver on > that driver after it fails and returns -ENOMEM. > > Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_tty.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_tty.c b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_tty.c > index 59fda2e..3e12ddb 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_tty.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_tty.c > @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ int dgap_tty_register(struct board_t *brd) > DPR_INIT(("tty_register start")); > > brd->SerialDriver = alloc_tty_driver(MAXPORTS); > + if (!brd->SerialDriver) > + return -ENOMEM; > > snprintf(brd->SerialName, MAXTTYNAMELEN, "tty_dgap_%d_", brd->boardnum); > brd->SerialDriver->name = brd->SerialName; > @@ -234,9 +236,10 @@ int dgap_tty_register(struct board_t *brd) > > /* The kernel wants space to store pointers to tty_structs */ > brd->SerialDriver->ttys = dgap_driver_kzmalloc(MAXPORTS * sizeof(struct tty_struct *), GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!brd->SerialDriver->ttys) > - return(-ENOMEM); > - > + if (!brd->SerialDriver->ttys){ > + rc = -ENOMEM; > + goto err_put_tty_serial; > + } > #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,28) > brd->SerialDriver->refcount = brd->TtyRefCnt; > #endif > @@ -253,6 +256,8 @@ int dgap_tty_register(struct board_t *brd) > * we are when we get into the dgap_tty_open() routine. > */ > brd->PrintDriver = alloc_tty_driver(MAXPORTS); > + if (!brd->PrintDriver) > + return -ENOMEM; if (!brd->PrintDriver) { rc = -ENOMEM: goto err_free_serial_ttys; } > > snprintf(brd->PrintName, MAXTTYNAMELEN, "pr_dgap_%d_", brd->boardnum); > brd->PrintDriver->name = brd->PrintName; > @@ -267,9 +272,10 @@ int dgap_tty_register(struct board_t *brd) > > /* The kernel wants space to store pointers to tty_structs */ > brd->PrintDriver->ttys = dgap_driver_kzmalloc(MAXPORTS * sizeof(struct tty_struct *), GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!brd->PrintDriver->ttys) > - return(-ENOMEM); > - > + if (!brd->PrintDriver->ttys){ > + rc = -ENOMEM; > + goto err_put_tty_print; > + } > #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,28) > brd->PrintDriver->refcount = brd->TtyRefCnt; > #endif > @@ -285,7 +291,7 @@ int dgap_tty_register(struct board_t *brd) > rc = tty_register_driver(brd->SerialDriver); > if (rc < 0) { > APR(("Can't register tty device (%d)\n", rc)); > - return(rc); > + goto err_put_tty_serial; goto err_free_print_ttys; > } > brd->dgap_Major_Serial_Registered = TRUE; > dgap_BoardsByMajor[brd->SerialDriver->major] = brd; > @@ -297,7 +303,7 @@ int dgap_tty_register(struct board_t *brd) > rc = tty_register_driver(brd->PrintDriver); > if (rc < 0) { > APR(("Can't register Transparent Print device (%d)\n", rc)); > - return(rc); > + goto err_put_tty_print; goto err_unregister_serial; > } > brd->dgap_Major_TransparentPrint_Registered = TRUE; > dgap_BoardsByMajor[brd->PrintDriver->major] = brd; > @@ -307,6 +313,10 @@ int dgap_tty_register(struct board_t *brd) > DPR_INIT(("DGAP REGISTER TTY: MAJORS: %d %d\n", brd->SerialDriver->major, > brd->PrintDriver->major)); Your patch frees everything by mistake on the success path. It should be: return 0; err_unregister_serial: tty_unregister_driver(brd->SerialDriver); err_free_print_ttys: kfree(brd->PrintDriver->ttys); err_put_tty_print: put_tty_driver(brd->PrintDriver); err_free_serial_ttys: kfree(brd->SerialDriver->ttys); err_put_tty_serial: put_tty_driver(brd->SerialDriver); return rc; } regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel