On 3/13/23 06:24, Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2023 01:56:25 Damien Le Moal wrote: >> On 3/12/23 06:44, Ondrej Zary wrote: >>> When ida_alloc() fails, "pi" is not freed although the misleading >>> comment says otherwise. >>> Move the ida_alloc() call up so we really don't have to free it. >> >> Certainly you meant: "so we really do free it in case of error.", no ? > > I meant "so we don't have to free pi in case of ida_alloc failure". That is better. Please rephrase the commit message to this. >>> /* set up pi->dev before pi_probe_unit() so it can use dev_printk() */ >>> pi->dev.parent = &pata_parport_bus; >>> pi->dev.bus = &pata_parport_bus_type; >>> pi->dev.driver = &pr->driver; >>> pi->dev.release = pata_parport_dev_release; >>> - id = ida_alloc(&pata_parport_bus_dev_ids, GFP_KERNEL); >>> - if (id < 0) >>> - return NULL; /* pata_parport_dev_release will do kfree(pi) */ >>> pi->dev.id = id; >>> dev_set_name(&pi->dev, "pata_parport.%u", pi->dev.id); >>> if (device_register(&pi->dev)) { >>> @@ -571,7 +572,7 @@ static struct pi_adapter *pi_init_one(struct parport *parport, >>> out_unreg_dev: >>> device_unregister(&pi->dev); >> >> Same comment as Sergey: isn't this going to do the ida free ? So shouldn't you >> return here ? > > No. device_unregister() calls pata_parport_dev_release() which does only kfree(pi), not ida_free(). But it probably should do ida_free() too. Yes, it should, otherwise you are leaking the ida with the normal (no errors) case. Care to send a fix for that too ? -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research