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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: clk: add gpio gated clock
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:34:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141001143459.GA31403@mwanda> (raw)

Hello Jyri Sarha,

The patch c873d14d30b8: "clk: add gpio gated clock" from Sep 5, 2014,
leads to the following static checker warning:

	drivers/clk/clk-gpio-gate.c:123 clk_register_gpio_gate()
	warn: passing devm_ allocated variable to kfree. 'clk_gpio'

drivers/clk/clk-gpio-gate.c
    97          if (dev)
    98                  clk_gpio = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct clk_gpio),
    99                                          GFP_KERNEL);
   100          else
   101                  clk_gpio = kzalloc(sizeof(struct clk_gpio), GFP_KERNEL);
   102  
   103          if (!clk_gpio) {
   104                  clk = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
   105                  goto clk_register_gpio_gate_err;
   106          }
   107  
   108          init.name = name;
   109          init.ops = &clk_gpio_gate_ops;
   110          init.flags = flags | CLK_IS_BASIC;
   111          init.parent_names = (parent_name ? &parent_name : NULL);
   112          init.num_parents = (parent_name ? 1 : 0);
   113  
   114          clk_gpio->gpiod = gpiod;
   115          clk_gpio->hw.init = &init;
   116  
   117          clk = clk_register(dev, &clk_gpio->hw);
   118  
   119          if (!IS_ERR(clk))
   120                  return clk;
   121  
   122          if (!dev)
   123                  kfree(clk_gpio);
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's complaing about this.  Obviously there is an "if (dev)" on the
allocation side.  Also Smatch is supposed to be able to follow logic
like that.  The other thing which may affect this, is that this is dead
code.  Smatch tends to deliberately print error messages in dead code
because Smatch is confused by dead code.

Anyway, the point is that this API sucks.  If it ever stops being dead
code then it's going to be a source of bugs.

Also in the kernel we tend to frown on putting in code before there is
a user for it.  So lets delete all the "if (dev) " code because that
pointer is always NULL.

regards,
dan carpenter

             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-01 14:34 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-10-02  7:11 ` clk: add gpio gated clock Jyri Sarha

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