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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 1/2] Staging: ipack: returning a freed pointer
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510151836.GA31515@elgon.mountain> (raw)

If ipack_device_register() returns an error, then we returned a freed
pointer.  The caller doesn't use it, but it means we return success to
the user instead of returning an error code.

I kind of rewrote the error handling in this function as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ipack/bridges/tpci200.c b/drivers/staging/ipack/bridges/tpci200.c
index 6aeb660..ab6ea0a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ipack/bridges/tpci200.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ipack/bridges/tpci200.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static struct ipack_device *tpci200_slot_register(const char *board_name,
 						  unsigned int slot_position)
 {
 	int found = 0;
-	struct ipack_device  *dev = NULL;
+	struct ipack_device  *dev;
 	struct tpci200_board *tpci200;
 
 	list_for_each_entry(tpci200, &tpci200_list, list) {
@@ -390,16 +390,16 @@ static struct ipack_device *tpci200_slot_register(const char *board_name,
 	if (slot_position >= TPCI200_NB_SLOT) {
 		pr_info("Slot [%s %d:%d] doesn't exist!\n",
 			TPCI200_SHORTNAME, tpci200_number, slot_position);
-		goto out;
+		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&tpci200->mutex))
-		goto out;
+		return NULL;
 
 	if (tpci200->slots[slot_position].dev != NULL) {
 		pr_err("Slot [%s %d:%d] already installed !\n",
 		       TPCI200_SHORTNAME, tpci200_number, slot_position);
-		goto out_unlock;
+		goto err_unlock;
 	}
 
 	dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipack_device), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static struct ipack_device *tpci200_slot_register(const char *board_name,
 		pr_info("Slot [%s %d:%d] Unable to allocate memory for new slot !\n",
 			TPCI200_SHORTNAME,
 			tpci200_number, slot_position);
-		goto out_unlock;
+		goto err_unlock;
 	}
 
 	if (size > IPACK_BOARD_NAME_SIZE) {
@@ -440,15 +440,18 @@ static struct ipack_device *tpci200_slot_register(const char *board_name,
 	dev->ops = &tpci200_bus_ops;
 	tpci200->slots[slot_position].dev = dev;
 
-	if (ipack_device_register(dev) < 0) {
-		tpci200_slot_unregister(dev);
-		kfree(dev);
-	}
+	if (ipack_device_register(dev) < 0)
+		goto err_unregister;
 
-out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&tpci200->mutex);
-out:
 	return dev;
+
+err_unregister:
+	tpci200_slot_unregister(dev);
+	kfree(dev);
+err_unlock:
+	mutex_unlock(&tpci200->mutex);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static ssize_t tpci200_store_board(struct device *pdev, const char *buf,

             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-10 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-10 15:18 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-05-10 15:33 ` [patch 1/2] Staging: ipack: returning a freed pointer walter harms
2012-05-10 15:53 ` Dan Carpenter

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