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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] PM / Hibernate: NULL dereferences on error paths
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:49:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111008104914.GQ30887@longonot.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111007132453.GA31424@elgon.mountain>

On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 09:28:48PM +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> +out_clean:
> +	if (data) {
> +		for (thr = 0; thr < nr_threads; thr++) {
> +			if (data[thr].thr)
> +				kthread_stop(data[thr].thr);
> +		}
> +		vfree(data);
> +	}
> +	if (page) free_page((unsigned long)page);
>  

This obviously works, but why don't you use a normal kernel unwind
style?  You tried this complicated error handling before and it
already caused bugs...  It's simpler if the error handling code has
no if statements.

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-08 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07 13:24 [patch] PM / Hibernate: NULL dereferences on error paths Dan Carpenter
2011-10-07 20:58 ` Bojan Smojver
2011-10-08 10:25 ` Bojan Smojver
2011-10-08 10:28 ` Bojan Smojver
2011-10-08 10:49 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2011-10-08 13:11 ` Bojan Smojver
2011-10-09 14:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-10-09 22:26 ` Bojan Smojver

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