Re: [PATCH 5/9] drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_sdio.c: Remove uselesskfree

From: walter harms
Date: Thu Sep 13 2012 - 10:15:27 EST




Am 12.09.2012 17:06, schrieb Peter Senna Tschudin:
> From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Remove useless kfree() and clean up code related to the removal.
>
> The semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @r exists@
> position p1,p2;
> expression x;
> @@
>
> if (x@p1 == NULL) { ... kfree@p2(x); ... return ...; }
>
> @unchanged exists@
> position r.p1,r.p2;
> expression e <= r.x,x,e1;
> iterator I;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> if (x@p1 == NULL) { ... when != I(x,...) S
> when != e = e1
> when != e += e1
> when != e -= e1
> when != ++e
> when != --e
> when != e++
> when != e--
> when != &e
> kfree@p2(x); ... return ...; }
>
> @ok depends on unchanged exists@
> position any r.p1;
> position r.p2;
> expression x;
> @@
>
> ... when != true x@p1 == NULL
> kfree@p2(x);
>
> @depends on !ok && unchanged@
> position r.p2;
> expression x;
> @@
>
> *kfree@p2(x);
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_sdio.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_sdio.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_sdio.c
> index f824290..a0621d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_sdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_sdio.c
> @@ -94,17 +94,14 @@ static struct sdio_rx *alloc_rx_struct(struct rx_cxt *rx)
> struct sdio_rx *r = NULL;
>
> r = kmalloc(sizeof(*r), GFP_ATOMIC);
> - if (r == NULL)
> - goto out;
> + if (!r)
> + return NULL;
>
> memset(r, 0, sizeof(*r));

This should be
r = kzmalloc(sizeof(*r), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!r)
return NULL;


>
> r->rx_cxt = rx;
>
> return r;
> -out:
> - kfree(r);
> - return NULL;
> }
>
> static void free_rx_struct(struct sdio_rx *r)
>
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