Re: [Intel-gfx] [patch] drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt: remove some dead code

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 04:34:57PM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> On ti, 2017-02-07 at 16:16 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > If "caps.buf" is already NULL then it doesn't need to be freed or set to
> > NULL.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> > @@ -965,11 +965,8 @@ static long intel_vgpu_ioctl(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd,
> >  			sparse->areas[0].offset =
> >  					PAGE_ALIGN(vgpu_aperture_offset(vgpu));
> >  			sparse->areas[0].size = vgpu_aperture_sz(vgpu);
> > -			if (!caps.buf) {
> 
> Looking at the code around, the right thing would be to just remove the
> negation? This currently seems like a memory leak.
> 
> > -				kfree(caps.buf);
> > -				caps.buf = NULL;
> > +			if (!caps.buf)
> >  				caps.size = 0;
> > -			}
> 
> And quickly looking, the caps is pre-initialized but unused at this
> point, so the whole if could just be removed, right?

Hm...  Duh.  You're right.  Let me resend.

regards,
dan carpenter