Linux-ARM-Kernel Archive on lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: linux@armlinux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: locomo: fix free dev incorrectly
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:47:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180109144753.GJ17719@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180109143755.16931-1-sxwjean@me.com>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:37:55PM +0800, Xiongwei Song wrote:
> In function locomo_init_one_child, If kzalloc call is failed for dev we
> would goto out label, then call kfree for dev, however, dev is NULL, we
> shouldn't do this.

kfree() internally checks for NULL pointers so callers don't have to.
Your patch is not necessary.

-- 
RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line in suburbia: sync at 8.8Mbps down 630kbps up
According to speedtest.net: 8.21Mbps down 510kbps up

      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-09 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09 14:37 [PATCH] ARM: locomo: fix free dev incorrectly Xiongwei Song
2018-01-09 14:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20180109144753.GJ17719@n2100.armlinux.org.uk \
    --to=linux@armlinux.org.uk \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox