The patch titled drivers/md: introduce missing kfree has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was drivers-md-introduce-missing-kfree.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/md: introduce missing kfree From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; statement S; expression E; identifier f,f1,l; position p1,p2; expression *ptr != NULL; @@ x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...); ... if (x == NULL) S <... when != x when != if (...) { <+...x...+> } ( x->f1 = E | (x->f1 == NULL || ...) | f(...,x->f1,...) ) ...> ( return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\); | return@p2 ...; ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c~drivers-md-introduce-missing-kfree drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c --- a/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c~drivers-md-introduce-missing-kfree +++ a/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ int dm_exception_store_create(struct dm_ type = get_type("N"); else { ti->error = "Persistent flag is not P or N"; - return -EINVAL; + r = -EINVAL; + goto bad_type; } if (!type) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch drivers-block-dac960c-use-dac960_v2_controller.patch drivers-char-ipmi-use-kcs_idle_state.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html