On Tuesday, 28. January 2014 12:46:01 Manish Badarkhe wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> Thank you for your review.
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
>
> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Manish,
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:42:00AM +0530, Manish Badarkhe wrote:
> >> Update the code to use devm_* API so that driver core will manage
> >> resources.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Manish Badarkhe <badarkhe.manish@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> Changes since V1:
> >> 1. Updated driver to use "devm_kzalloc" to "kstrdup".
> >> 2. Updated commit message.
> >>
> >> Not tested on any board.
> >>
> >> :100644 100644 5ea64b9... e9763a4... M drivers/regulator/fixed.c
> >> :
> >> drivers/regulator/fixed.c | 42
> >> ++++++++++++------------------------------
> >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/fixed.c b/drivers/regulator/fixed.c
> >> index 5ea64b9..e9763a4 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/regulator/fixed.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/regulator/fixed.c
> >> @@ -132,15 +132,15 @@ static int reg_fixed_voltage_probe(struct
> >> platform_device *pdev)>>
> >> GFP_KERNEL);
> >>
> >> if (drvdata == NULL) {
> >>
> >> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to allocate device data\n");
> >>
> >> - ret = -ENOMEM;
> >> - goto err;
> >> + return -ENOMEM;
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> - drvdata->desc.name = kstrdup(config->supply_name, GFP_KERNEL);
> >> + drvdata->desc.name = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
> >> + strlen(config->supply_name) + 1,
> >> + GFP_KERNEL);
> >>
> >> if (drvdata->desc.name == NULL) {
> >>
> >> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to allocate supply name\n");
> >>
> >> - ret = -ENOMEM;
> >> - goto err;
> >> + return -ENOMEM;
> >>
> >> }
> >
> > Umm, I am fairly certain that devm_kzalloc() can't be used as a
> > substitute for kstrdup, at least not without accompanying memcpy.
>
> Yes, I have provided allocation but it should be followed with assignment.
> Can I modify like this,
>
> + drvdata->desc.name = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
> + strlen(config->supply_name) + 1,
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (drvdata->desc.name)
> + sprintf(drvdata->desc.name, "%s", config->supply_name);
hmm, so you replaced a general helper function by open coding the string-
duplication. Doesn't this defeat the target of simplifying the code?
Heiko
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