On 10/21/2012 11:52 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr>
> 
> The function __iio_add_event_config_attrs is only called once, by the
> function iio_device_register_eventset.  If the call fails,
> iio_device_register_eventset calls __iio_remove_event_config_attrs.  There
> is thus no need for __iio_add_event_config_attrs to also call
> __iio_remove_event_config_attrs on failure.
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @r@
> identifier f,free,a;
> parameter list[n] ps;
> type T;
> expression e;
> @@
> 
> f(ps,T a,...) {
>   ... when any
>       when != a = e
>   if(...) { ... free(a); ... return ...; }
>   ... when any
> }
> 
> @@
> identifier r.f,r.free;
> expression x,a;
> expression list[r.n] xs;
> @@
> 
> * x = f(xs,a,...);
>   if (...) { ... free(a); ... return ...; }
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr>

Thanks - merged to fixes-togreg branch of iio.git

Jonathan
> 
> ---
> __iio_remove_event_config_attrs kfrees the elements of a list, but doesn't
> actually remove them from the list.  Perhaps for safety this should be
> cleaned up as well.  Not tested.
> 
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c |    7 +------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c 
> b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
> index fa6543b..78570c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
> @@ -350,15 +350,10 @@ static inline int __iio_add_event_config_attrs(struct 
> iio_dev *indio_dev)
>               ret = iio_device_add_event_sysfs(indio_dev,
>                                                &indio_dev->channels[j]);
>               if (ret < 0)
> -                     goto error_clear_attrs;
> +                     return ret;
>               attrcount += ret;
>       }
>       return attrcount;
> -
> -error_clear_attrs:
> -     __iio_remove_event_config_attrs(indio_dev);
> -
> -     return ret;
>  }
>  
>  static bool iio_check_for_dynamic_events(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
> 
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