From: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
To: Joe Eykholt <jeykholt@cisco.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>,
devel@open-fcoe.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Open-FCoE] [PATCH 1/2] libfc: fix memory leakage in local port
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:35:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288308922.1431.204.camel@fritz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCA07CE.2060702@cisco.com>
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 16:31 -0700, Joe Eykholt wrote:
>
> On 10/28/10 4:12 PM, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 20:40 +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> >> There seems info should get freed when error encountered.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> --- a/drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_lport.c 2010-09-13 07:07:38.000000000 +0800
> >> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_lport.c 2010-10-27 20:33:36.000000000 +0800
> >> @@ -1766,8 +1766,10 @@ static int fc_lport_ct_request(struct fc
> >> info->sg = job->reply_payload.sg_list;
> >>
> >> if (!lport->tt.exch_seq_send(lport, fp, fc_lport_bsg_resp,
> >> - NULL, info, tov))
> >> + NULL, info, tov)) {
> >> + kfree(info);
> >
> > We cannot free the BSG info here. If you look at fc_exch_seq_send you
> > can see that it's attached to the exchange and then when the response is
> > received it is passed to the response handler, in the case
> > fc_lport_bsg_resp, where it is free'd.
>
> This is on failure of seq_send(). It's confusing because that returns the
> sequence, which is NULL on error. So, I think the kfree() is correct.
>
> >
> >> return -ECOMM;
Ah, you're right... and that's why we return an error. Thanks Joe.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 12:40 [PATCH 1/2] libfc: fix memory leakage in local port Hillf Danton
2010-10-27 12:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Hillf Danton
2010-10-28 23:13 ` [Open-FCoE] " Robert Love
2010-10-28 23:12 ` [Open-FCoE] [PATCH 1/2] " Robert Love
2010-10-28 23:31 ` Joe Eykholt
2010-10-28 23:35 ` Robert Love [this message]
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