From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vasiliy Kulikov Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:16:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-led.c: Add of_node_put Message-Id: <20100831161644.GA14505@albatros> List-Id: References: <1283075566-27441-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> <1283075566-27441-2-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> <4C7D247F.4060500@bfs.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julia Lawall Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, kernel-janitors-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linuxppc-dev-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, walter harms On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 18:08 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, walter harms wrote: > > > > > > > Julia Lawall schrieb: > > > Add a call to of_node_put in the error handling code following a call to > > > of_find_node_by_path. [...] > > > --- a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-led.c > > > +++ b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-led.c > > > @@ -92,8 +92,10 @@ static int __init via_pmu_led_init(void) > > > if (dt = NULL) > > > return -ENODEV; > > > model = of_get_property(dt, "model", NULL); > > > - if (model = NULL) > > > + if (model = NULL) { > > > + of_node_put(dt); > > > return -ENODEV; > > > + } > > > if (strncmp(model, "PowerBook", strlen("PowerBook")) != 0 && > > > strncmp(model, "iBook", strlen("iBook")) != 0 && > > > strcmp(model, "PowerMac7,2") != 0 && > > > > > > > is there any rule that says when to use strncmp ? it seems perfecly valid to use strcpy here > > (what is done in the last cmp). > > Perhaps there are some characters after eg PowerBook that one doesn't want > to compare with? It seems to me that model has no '\0' in the end. If model is got from the hardware then we should double check it - maybe harware is buggy. Otherwise we'll overflow model. But why strcmp(model, "PowerMac7,2")? IMO it should be replaced with strncmp(). -- Vasiliy