On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:44:04AM +0900, Ji-Hun Kim wrote: > @@ -528,18 +528,22 @@ static void device_free_rings(struct vnt_private *priv) > priv->tx0_bufs, priv->tx_bufs_dma0); > } > > -static void device_init_rd0_ring(struct vnt_private *priv) > +static int device_init_rd0_ring(struct vnt_private *priv) > { > int i; > dma_addr_t curr = priv->rd0_pool_dma; > struct vnt_rx_desc *desc; > + int ret = 0; Don't initialize "ret". When you do that it disables static analysis to find uninitialized variable warnings. > > /* Init the RD0 ring entries */ > for (i = 0; i < priv->opts.rx_descs0; > i ++, curr += sizeof(struct vnt_rx_desc)) { > desc = &priv->aRD0Ring[i]; > desc->rd_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*desc->rd_info), GFP_KERNEL); > - > + if (!desc->rd_info) { > + ret = -ENOMEM; > + goto error; > + } > if (!device_alloc_rx_buf(priv, desc)) > dev_err(&priv->pcid->dev, "can not alloc rx bufs\n"); > We need to handle the case where device_alloc_rx_buf() fails as well... Some years back, I wrote a post about error handling that might be helpful: https://plus.google.com/106378716002406849458/posts/dnanfhQ4mHQ You are using "one err" and "do nothing" style error handling which are described in the post. > @@ -550,20 +554,29 @@ static void device_init_rd0_ring(struct vnt_private *priv) > if (i > 0) > priv->aRD0Ring[i-1].next_desc = cpu_to_le32(priv->rd0_pool_dma); > priv->pCurrRD[0] = &priv->aRD0Ring[0]; > + > + return 0; > +error: > + device_free_rd0_ring(priv); > + return ret; > } Of course, Jia-Ju Bai is correct to say that this is a layering violation. Each function should only clean up after its self. Also, this is a very typical "one err" style bug which I explain about in my g+ post. The rule that applies here is that you should only free things which have been allocated. Since we only partially allocated the rd0 ring, device_free_rd0_ring() will crash when we do: dma_unmap_single(&priv->pcid->dev, rd_info->skb_dma, priv->rx_buf_sz, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); "rd_info" is NULL so rd_info->skb_dma is a NULL dereference. regards, dan carpenter -- 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