Re: [PATCH 1/8] arch/mips/txx9: introduce missing kfree, iounmap

From: Atsushi Nemoto
Date: Sun Sep 13 2009 - 10:30:43 EST


On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:21:00 +0200 (CEST), Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.
> Error handling code following an ioremap should iounmap the allocated data.
>
> The semantic match that finds the first problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Thank you for finding this out.

This patch add some correctness, but obviously incomplete: there are
more error pathes without iounmap/kfree/etc. in this function.

And I like goto-style cleanup, as Mark Brown said in reply for your
sound/soc patch.

Could you make a new patch?

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Atsushi Nemoto
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