From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 07:29:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: shmobile: R-Mobile: add missing of_node_put Message-Id: <20151012092910.7580c2b9@free-electrons.com> List-Id: References: <1444480254-14399-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1444480254-14399-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Dear Geert Uytterhoeven, On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:18:52 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > pd = kzalloc(sizeof(*pd), GFP_KERNEL); > > - if (!pd) > > + if (!pd) { > > + of_node_put(np); > > return -ENOMEM; > > + } > > While technically this patch is correct, the system will be dead anyway if it > ever goes OOM at core_initcall() time. Then BUG_ON(!pd); ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com