On 05/17/2012 02:11 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> In the original code if dma_pool_alloc() fails then we call
> dma_pool_free(). The problem is that "chap_table" is NULL and
> "chap_dma" is uninitialized so it will cause an error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c
> index 7ac21da..21dce92 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c
> @@ -1329,10 +1329,8 @@ int qla4xxx_get_chap(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, char *username, char *password,
> dma_addr_t chap_dma;
>
> chap_table = dma_pool_alloc(ha->chap_dma_pool, GFP_KERNEL, &chap_dma);
> - if (chap_table == NULL) {
> - ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto exit_get_chap;
> - }
> + if (chap_table == NULL)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> chap_size = sizeof(struct ql4_chap_table);
> memset(chap_table, 0, chap_size);
I thought dma_pool_free checked the vaddr/chap_table like how kfree
checks for nulls. You are right. Looks ok to me.
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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