On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:48:56PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:12:16PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > >> Removed the redundancy code while freeing the controller resources. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------- [...] > >> + _base_free_irq(ioc); > >> + _base_disable_msix(ioc); > >> + > >> + if (ioc->msix96_vector) > >> + kfree(ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex); > > > > kfree() already checks for zero or a NULL pointer. > > Sorry Johannes, I didn't get you. If I understand this correctly, you > are suggesting to check for NULL pointer before calling kree() API as > shown below, > > if (ioc->msix96_vector && (ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex != NULL)) > kfree(ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex); Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you don't need the if (ioc->msix96_vector) before the kfree(). ioc->replyPostRegisterIndex should be NULL if ioc->msix96_vector is 0, as far as I can see. In _scsih_probe() you have: shost = scsi_host_alloc(&scsih_driver_template, sizeof(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER)); if (!shost) return -ENODEV; /* init local params */ ioc = shost_priv(shost); and scsi_host_alloc() does a kzalloc() for shost. so ioc->replyPortRegisterIndex is NULL. Or am I thinking wrong here? > > Regards, > Sreekanth -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html