Re: [PATCH] staging: wfx: fix the error handling in wfx_init_common()

Re: [PATCH] staging: wfx: fix the error handling in wfx_init_common()

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 11:29:06PM +0800, xkernel.wang@foxmail.com wrote:
> From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
> 
> All the error handlers of wfx_init_common() return without calling
> ieee80211_free_hw(hw), which may result in memory leak. So I add
> one err label to unify the error handlers.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wfx/main.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/main.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/main.c
> index 4b9fdf9..f83df9f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wfx/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/main.c
> @@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ struct wfx_dev *wfx_init_common(struct device *dev,
>  	wdev->pdata.gpio_wakeup = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "wakeup",
>  							  GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
>  	if (IS_ERR(wdev->pdata.gpio_wakeup))
> -		return NULL;
> +		goto err;
> +
>  	if (wdev->pdata.gpio_wakeup)
>  		gpiod_set_consumer_name(wdev->pdata.gpio_wakeup, "wfx wakeup");
>  
> @@ -325,9 +326,13 @@ struct wfx_dev *wfx_init_common(struct device *dev,
>  	wdev->force_ps_timeout = -1;
>  
>  	if (devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, wfx_free_common, wdev))
> -		return NULL;
> +		goto err;
>  
>  	return wdev;
> +
> +err:
> +	ieee80211_free_hw(hw);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  int wfx_probe(struct wfx_dev *wdev)
> -- 

Please make this a patch series, properly numbered, and not 2 individual
and separate patches as the second one relies on this one, yet that it
not conveyed to anyone at all :(

thanks,

greg k-h