On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:14:19 +0800 "Zhao\, Gang" <gamerh2o@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan, thanks for resending this patch. But it seems you overlooked > something we discussed earlier. > > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:13:08 +0800, Alan wrote: > > We should check the ring allocations don't fail. > > If we get a fail we need to clean up properly. The allocator assumes the > > deallocator will be used on failure, but it isn't. Make sure the > > right deallocator is always called and add a missing check against > > fbr allocation failure. > > > > [v2]: Correct check logic > > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c | 9 +++++++-- > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c b/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c > > index 6413500..cc600df 100644 > > --- a/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c > > +++ b/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c > > @@ -2124,7 +2124,11 @@ static int et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc(struct et131x_adapter *adapter) > > > > /* Alloc memory for the lookup table */ > > rx_ring->fbr[0] = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fbr_lookup), GFP_KERNEL); > > + if (rx_ring->fbr[0] == NULL) > > + return -ENOMEM; > > rx_ring->fbr[1] = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fbr_lookup), GFP_KERNEL); > > + if (rx_ring->fbr[1] == NULL) > > + return -ENOMEM; > > Shouldn't rx_ring->fbr[0] be freed when allocation of rx_ring->fbr[1] > fails ? Or we will leak memory here. No.. the tx_dma_memory_free and rx_dma_memory_free functions are designed to handle incomplete set up. They are now called on incomplete setup and will clean up all the resources. > > @@ -3591,6 +3595,7 @@ static int et131x_adapter_memory_alloc(struct et131x_adapter *adapter) > > if (status) { > > dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev, > > "et131x_tx_dma_memory_alloc FAILED\n"); > > + et131x_tx_dma_memory_free(adapter); > > return status; > > } > > /* Receive buffer memory allocation */ > > @@ -3598,7 +3603,7 @@ static int et131x_adapter_memory_alloc(struct et131x_adapter *adapter) > > if (status) { > > dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev, > > "et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc FAILED\n"); > > - et131x_tx_dma_memory_free(adapter); > > + et131x_adapter_memory_free(adapter); > > return status; > > } > > Which is what these changes are about. Whoever wrote the allocator and cleanup methods arranged (except for the rx_ring->fbr cases) that the free method should be called on a failure. It looks as if somewhere along the line of the driver development whoever wrote the higher level bits didn't understand that. Alan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel