Re: [PATCH 1/3] thermal: int340x: Fix bogus acpi_buffer pointer freeing

[srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 12:09 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> It is the caller's responsibility to free only upon ACPI_SUCCESS.
> 

Since context->ret.pointer will be NULL on failure so calling kfree
will just return.

Although we can avoid this call to kfree.

Thanks,
Srinivas

> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c
> b/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c
> index 4954800b9850..0e7931c286ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c
> @@ -186,11 +186,11 @@ static int int3400_thermal_run_osc(acpi_handle
> handle, char *uuid_str, int *enab
>                 ret = *((u32 *)(context.ret.pointer + 4));
>                 if (ret != *enable)
>                         result = -EPERM;
> +
> +               kfree(context.ret.pointer);
>         } else
>                 result = -EPERM;
>  
> -       kfree(context.ret.pointer);
> -
>         return result;
>  }
>