On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:02:12AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 02:50:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:29:48PM +0100, xypron.g...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de>
> > > 
> > > p is freed if NULL.
> > 
> > Not a real problem, right?
> > 
> > > p is leaked if second calloc fails.
> > 
> > You just created a new bug in your "fix" :(
> > 
> > Please run your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, odds are, it
> > would have caught this error.
> > 
> 
> Checkpatch doesn't catch the problems here.  I thought it would have
> caught the style issue but apparently it only looks for extra curly
> braces when you run it in --file mode.

Ah, that's good to know.

> Fengguang would hopefully have caught the missing curly braces bug with
> Coccinelle.

Is Coccinelle run on the userspace .c code in the kernel?

thanks,

greg k-h
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