Re: [PATCH v7 02/13] PCI/P2PDMA: Add sysfs group to display p2pmem stats

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche-HInyCGIudOg@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 12:15 -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> On 2018-09-25 11:29 a.m., Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 10:22 -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > @@ -83,9 +132,14 @@ static int pci_p2pdma_setup(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> > >  
> > >  	pdev->p2pdma = p2p;
> > >  
> > > +	error = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &p2pmem_group);
> > > +	if (error)
> > > +		goto out_pool_destroy;
> > > +
> > >  	return 0;
> > >  
> > >  out_pool_destroy:
> > > +	pdev->p2pdma = NULL;
> > >  	gen_pool_destroy(p2p->pool);
> > >  out:
> > >  	devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, p2p);
> > 
> > This doesn't look right to me. Shouldn't devm_remove_action() be called instead
> > of devm_kfree() if sysfs_create_group() fails?
> 
> That makes no sense to me. We are reversing a devm_kzalloc() not a
> custom action....

In case what I wrote was not clear: both devm_kzalloc() and
devm_add_action_or_reset() have to be reversed if sysfs_create_group() fails.
devm_add_action_or_reset() calls devres_add(). The latter function adds an
element to the dev->devres_head list. So I think that only calling devm_kfree()
if sysfs_create_group() fails will lead to corruption of the dev->devres_head
list.

Bart.