Re: [patch -next] caif: add error handling for allocation

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On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:40:23AM +0200, Sjur Brændeland wrote:
> Thank you for your patch.
> When reviewing this I found another potential memory leak as well.
> If cffrml_create fails, we might be leaking the phy_driver.
> So perhaps you could do kfree(phy_driver) in out_err: as well, while
> you are at it?
> 

Good point.  A kfree(phy_driver) would fix the leak.  But why does
cfserl_create() return &this->layer; instead of just "return this;"
Their equivalent now, but if you change the cfserl struct it will
break the kfree().

I'll be travelling for a while, so I may be out of reach until
Wednessday.

regards,
dan carpenter

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