> -----Original Message----- > From: Julia Lawall [mailto:julia@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:19 PM > To: Wolfram Sang > Cc: Liam Girdwood; kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mark Brown; Jaroslav > Kysela; Takashi Iwai; Dong Aisheng-B29396; alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c: add missing kfree > > From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> > > Move the test on pdev->id before the kzalloc to avoid requiring kfree > when the test fails. This fix was suggested by Wolfram Sang. > > A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as > follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // <smpl> > @@ > identifier x; > expression E1!=0,E2,E3,E4; > statement S; > iterator I; > @@ > > ( > if (...) { ... when != kfree(x) > when != x = E3 > when != E3 = x > * return ...; > } > ... when != x = E2 > when != I(...,x,...) S > if (...) { ... when != x = E4 > kfree(x); ... return ...; } > ) > // </smpl> > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> > > --- > diff --git a/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c b/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c index > 0b3adae..e9a90e4 100644 > --- a/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c > +++ b/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c > @@ -519,12 +519,11 @@ static int mxs_saif_probe(struct platform_device > *pdev) > struct mxs_saif *saif; > int ret = 0; > > + if (pdev->id >= ARRAY_SIZE(mxs_saif)) > + return -EINVAL; > saif = kzalloc(sizeof(*saif), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!saif) > return -ENOMEM; > - > - if (pdev->id >= ARRAY_SIZE(mxs_saif)) > - return -EINVAL; > mxs_saif[pdev->id] = saif; > > saif->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL); Thanks for the finding, Julia. It's ok to me. BTW I guess you may need to resend a new version patch instead of following it in this mail thread. :) If yes, one minus thing, add one blank line below the line of 'return -ENOMEM' may look more comfortable. Regards Dong Aisheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html