Re: [Gigaset307x-common] ISDN-Gigaset: Release memory in gigaset_initcs() after an allocation failure

From: isdn
Date: Tue Sep 27 2016 - 08:17:23 EST


Am 27.09.2016 um 13:32 schrieb SF Markus Elfring:
>>> I got the impression that the exception handling was incomplete in the
>>> implementation of the function "gigaset_initcs".
>>
>> That impression is wrong. Careful reading of the code will confirm that.
>
> * Is it still correct nowadays that the function "gigaset_initcs" did not
> call the function "kfree" after a later function call failed?
>

Yes, if it is handled in another place, Paul already did show you the place.


> * Do you expect that allocated memory will be automatically reclaimed
> after it would return a null pointer?
>
Of course not

Best regards
Karsten