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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: shmobile: R-Mobile: add missing of_node_put
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 07:30:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWxZG0tyESgGe=Ze_nrH8oHq1vW3xUBBnc8eNSMUUCExQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151012092910.7580c2b9@free-electrons.com>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 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); ?

kzalloc() will scream anyway.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-12  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-10 12:30 [PATCH 0/5] add missing of_node_put Julia Lawall
2015-10-10 12:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] ARM: shmobile: R-Mobile: " Julia Lawall
2015-10-12  0:16   ` Simon Horman
2015-10-12  7:18   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-10-12  7:24     ` Julia Lawall
2015-10-12  7:26       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-10-12  7:29     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-10-12  7:30       ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]

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