From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ldv-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] carl9170: fix leaks at failure path in carl9170_usb_probe()
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:59:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131010175952.GG2691@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52466624.4040106@ispras.ru>
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 01:16:20AM -0400, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> On 28.09.2013 00:17, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Alexey Khoroshilov
> ><khoroshilov@ispras.ru> wrote:
> >
> >>- return request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, 1, CARL9170FW_NAME,
> >>+ err = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, 1, CARL9170FW_NAME,
> >> &ar->udev->dev, GFP_KERNEL, ar, carl9170_usb_firmware_step2);
> >>+ if (err) {
> >>+ usb_put_dev(udev);
> >>+ usb_put_dev(udev);
> >You are doing the same free twice.
> Yes, because it was get twice.
> >I guess you meant to also free: usb_put_dev(ar->udev)
> udev and ar->udev are equal, so technically the patch is correct.
>
> I agree that there is some inconsistency, but I would prefer to fix
> it at usb_get_dev() side with a comment about reasons for the double
> get.
What is the reason for the double get?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-10 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-28 3:51 [PATCH] carl9170: fix leaks at failure path in carl9170_usb_probe() Alexey Khoroshilov
2013-09-28 4:17 ` Fabio Estevam
2013-09-28 5:16 ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2013-10-10 17:59 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2013-10-10 18:17 ` Christian Lamparter
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