Re: [PATCH] bestcomm: no need to free when kzalloc fail

From: Li Zefan
Date: Wed May 22 2013 - 01:00:58 EST


On 2013/5/22 12:49, Libo Chen wrote:
>
> ping...
>
> On 2013/5/5 16:38, chenlibo.3@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Libo Chen <libo.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> There is no need to free bcom_eng if kzalloc fail
>>

kfree(NULL) is fine. We gain nothing from this patch, and it even adds one
more line to the code, so just drop thi patch.

>> Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c b/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
>> index a8c2e29..300ee2d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
>> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static int mpc52xx_bcom_probe(struct platform_device *op)
>> printk(KERN_ERR DRIVER_NAME ": "
>> "Can't allocate state structure\n");
>> rv = -ENOMEM;
>> - goto error_sramclean;
>> + goto error_kzalloc;
>> }
>>
>> /* Save the node */
>> @@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ error_release:
>> release_mem_region(res_bcom.start, sizeof(struct mpc52xx_sdma));
>> error_sramclean:
>> kfree(bcom_eng);
>> +error_kzalloc:
>> bcom_sram_cleanup();
>> error_ofput:
>> of_node_put(op->dev.of_node);
>>
>
>
> .
>

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