Hi Kishon, On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > On Friday 23 February 2018 03:06 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:40:49AM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >> Hi Lorenzo, > >> > >> On Thursday 22 February 2018 11:49 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > >>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:47:06PM +0100, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote: > >>>> From: Rolf Evers-Fischer <rolf.evers.fischer@xxxxxxxxx> > >>>> > >>>> This commit decreases the number of jump labels and ensures > >>>> that the next commit doesn't increase the number of occurrences > >>>> of 'kfree(func_name)'. > >>>> > >>>> Change-Id: I0d1b6fd652395b85f82b11c43bf9b7db512854d1 > >>>> Signed-off-by: Rolf Evers-Fischer <rolf.evers.fischer@xxxxxxxxx> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Rolf Evers-Fischer <embedded24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>>> --- > >>>> drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c | 7 ++----- > >>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > >>>> > >>>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c > >>>> index 766ce1dca2ec..23d0e128d1a5 100644 > >>>> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c > >>>> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c > >>>> @@ -220,9 +220,10 @@ struct pci_epf *pci_epf_create(const char *name) > >>>> *buf = '\0'; > >>>> > >>>> epf->name = kstrdup(func_name, GFP_KERNEL); > >>>> + kfree(func_name); > >>> > >>> I am certainly missing something but what if we reworked the code > >>> and just: > >>> > >>> kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); > >>> > >>> once instead of allocating another local copy (that we then have to > >>> free) ? > >> > >> name will be something like pci_epf_test.0 and in epf->name we want to just > >> have pci_epf_test. > >>> > >>> Reworded: why > >>> > >>> epf->name = func_name; > >> > >> memory should be allocated for epf->name before it can be initialized. IMO > >> without kstrdup, there will be a null pointer exception. > > > > I understand that but the point is that func_name *was* allocated with > > kstrdup() already I would like to understand why we need to do it twice > > (and kfree the first allocation). > > func_name would be allocated for a size greater than what will be in epf->name. > It won't be significant though. > > Thanks > Kishon > I have just an idea, how to use only one copy, but with the shorter length. What about changing the code like this? int len = strchrnul(name, '.') - name; epf->name = kstrndup(name, len, GFP_KERNEL); In this case we are only allocating the smaller amount of memory and we don't need the 'buf' and 'func_name' pointers anymore. They will be replaced with 'len' and some pointer arithmetic. Kind regards, Rolf
