[PATCH 7/7] drivers/staging: Clean up error-handling code

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Fri Oct 15 2010 - 08:54:20 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

In the first hunk, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though
other failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.

In the second hunk, there was error handling code that returned without
freeing psz_path_name.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds the first problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@

ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
return ret;
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dspapi.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dspapi.c b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dspapi.c
--- a/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dspapi.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dspapi.c
@@ -493,8 +493,10 @@ u32 mgrwrap_register_object(union trappe
args->args_mgr_registerobject.psz_path_name) +
1;
psz_path_name = kmalloc(path_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!psz_path_name)
+ if (!psz_path_name) {
+ status = -ENOMEM;
goto func_end;
+ }
ret = strncpy_from_user(psz_path_name,
(char *)args->args_mgr_registerobject.
psz_path_name, path_size);
@@ -503,8 +505,10 @@ u32 mgrwrap_register_object(union trappe
goto func_end;
}

- if (args->args_mgr_registerobject.obj_type >= DSP_DCDMAXOBJTYPE)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (args->args_mgr_registerobject.obj_type >= DSP_DCDMAXOBJTYPE) {
+ status = -EINVAL;
+ goto func_end;
+ }

status = dcd_register_object(&uuid_obj,
args->args_mgr_registerobject.obj_type,

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