Dan, Thanks. We'll look into it and send a patch soon.
Regards, WingMan > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 7:02 AM > To: Kwok, WingMan > Cc: SF Markus Elfring; Karicheri, Muralidharan; Kwok, WingMan; > [email protected]; LKML; [email protected]; Julia Lawall > Subject: Re: [PATCH] NetCP: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two > function calls > > Hi Wingman, > > There are some bugs in this error handling. > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 08:22:23PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c > b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c > > index fa1041a..cbd6dde 100644 > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c > > @@ -2010,12 +2010,10 @@ static int gbe_probe(struct netcp_device > *netcp_device, struct device *dev, > > quit: > > if (gbe_dev->hw_stats) > > devm_kfree(dev, gbe_dev->hw_stats); > > - if (gbe_dev->ale) > > - cpsw_ale_destroy(gbe_dev->ale); > > + cpsw_ale_destroy(gbe_dev->ale); > > if (gbe_dev->ss_regs) > > devm_iounmap(dev, gbe_dev->ss_regs); > > - if (interfaces) > > - of_node_put(interfaces); > > + of_node_put(interfaces); > ^^^^^^^^^^ > "interfaces" is sometimes unintialized in this code. I don't know why > GCC doesn't catch this... :( > > This is a "one rrr bug", which is caused because you just have one error > label "quit" which handles all the error handling. Please read my > Google+ comment on error handling. > > https://plus.google.com/106378716002406849458/posts/dnanfhQ4mHQ > > > devm_kfree(dev, gbe_dev); > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This is not the right way to use the devm_ interface. These things are > freed automatically on error or when we are done with them. This driver > is double freeing pretty much everything. Grep for devm_kfree() and > fix everything. > > I don't know why kbuild didn't catch this... > > regards > dan carpenter N�����r��y����b�X��ǧv�^�){.n�+����{����zX����ܨ}���Ơz�&j:+v�������zZ+��+zf���h���~����i���z� �w���?�����&�)ߢf��^jǫy�m��@A�a��� 0��h���i
