Re: [PATCH] PCI: hv: Use kfree(hbus) in hv_pci_probe()'s error handling path

From: Lorenzo Pieralisi
Date: Fri Feb 21 2020 - 09:40:09 EST


On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 02:39:11PM -0800, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> Now that we use kzalloc() to allocate the hbus buffer, we should use
> kfree() in the error path as well.
>
> Also remove the type casting, since it's unnecessary in C.

Two unrelated logical changes -> two patches please, I know it is
tempting but it is important to split logical changes into separate
patches.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> Fixes: 877b911a5ba0 ("PCI: hv: Avoid a kmemleak false positive caused by the hbus buffer")
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Sorry for missing the error handling path.
>
> drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
> index 9977abff92fc..15011a349520 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
> @@ -2922,7 +2922,7 @@ static int hv_pci_probe(struct hv_device *hdev,
> * positive by using kmemleak_alloc() and kmemleak_free() to ask
> * kmemleak to track and scan the hbus buffer.
> */
> - hbus = (struct hv_pcibus_device *)kzalloc(HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> + hbus = kzalloc(HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!hbus)
> return -ENOMEM;
> hbus->state = hv_pcibus_init;
> @@ -3058,7 +3058,7 @@ static int hv_pci_probe(struct hv_device *hdev,
> free_dom:
> hv_put_dom_num(hbus->sysdata.domain);
> free_bus:
> - free_page((unsigned long)hbus);
> + kfree(hbus);
> return ret;
> }
>
> --
> 2.19.1
>