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From: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
To: Claudiu Beznea <Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <ganesh.krishna@microchip.com>,
	<venkateswara.kaja@microchip.com>, <aditya.shankar@microchip.com>,
	<adham.abozaeid@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 25/26] staging: wilc1000: refactor wilc_netdev_init() to handle memory free in error path
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:54:06 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910195406.47e6c6a4@ajaysk-VirtualBox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4146484d-e815-7d02-88dd-dc66493d0719@microchip.com>

Hi Claudiu,

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:21:13 +0300
Claudiu Beznea <Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com> wrote:

> On 04.09.2018 09:39, Ajay Singh wrote:
> > Refactor the wilc_netdev_init() to cleanup the memory for error
> > scenario and remove unnecessary 'dev' pointer check.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c             | 36
> > ++++++++++++++++-------
> > drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c |  6 +++- 2 files
> > changed, 30 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> > b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c index d7d43fd..91a45a7
> > 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> > @@ -1073,10 +1073,8 @@ int wilc_netdev_init(struct wilc **wilc,
> > struct device *dev, int io_type, INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wl->rxq_head.list);
> >  
> >  	wl->hif_workqueue =
> > create_singlethread_workqueue("WILC_wq");
> > -	if (!wl->hif_workqueue) {
> > -		kfree(wl);
> > -		return -ENOMEM;
> > -	}
> > +	if (!wl->hif_workqueue)
> > +		goto free_wl;
> >  
> >  	register_inetaddr_notifier(&g_dev_notifier);
> >  
> > @@ -1085,7 +1083,7 @@ int wilc_netdev_init(struct wilc **wilc,
> > struct device *dev, int io_type, 
> >  		ndev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct wilc_vif));
> >  		if (!ndev)
> > -			return -ENOMEM;
> > +			goto free_ndev;
> >  
> >  		vif = netdev_priv(ndev);
> >  		memset(vif, 0, sizeof(struct wilc_vif));
> > @@ -1106,15 +1104,13 @@ int wilc_netdev_init(struct wilc **wilc,
> > struct device *dev, int io_type, ndev->netdev_ops =
> > &wilc_netdev_ops; 
> >  		wdev = wilc_create_wiphy(ndev, dev);
> > -
> > -		if (dev)
> > -			SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, dev);
> > -
> >  		if (!wdev) {
> >  			netdev_err(ndev, "Can't register WILC
> > Wiphy\n");
> > -			return -1;
> > +			goto free_ndev;
> >  		}
> >  
> > +		SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, dev);
> > +
> >  		vif->ndev->ieee80211_ptr = wdev;
> >  		vif->ndev->ml_priv = vif;
> >  		wdev->netdev = vif->ndev;
> > @@ -1125,11 +1121,29 @@ int wilc_netdev_init(struct wilc **wilc,
> > struct device *dev, int io_type, 
> >  		ret = register_netdev(ndev);
> >  		if (ret)
> > -			return ret;
> > +			goto free_ndev;  
> 
> In case this happens you will loose the return code of
> register_netdev() and you will return instead -ENOMEM. Maybe, the
> best approach will be to initialize ret = -ENOMEM while declaring it

Thanks for your suggestion to handle the return code.
I will work on it and submit the changes in different series. 

Regards,
Ajay

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-04  6:39 [PATCH v2 00/26] staging: wilc1000: avoid use of static and global variable Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 01/26] staging: wilc1000: move 'wilc_enable_ps' global variable into 'wilc' struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 02/26] staging: wilc1000: move 'aging_timer' static variable to wilc_priv struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 03/26] staging: wilc1000: fix to use correct index to free scanned info in clear_shadow_scan() Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 04/26] staging: wilc1000: remove unnecessary NULL check " Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 05/26] staging: wilc1000: moved last_scanned_shadow & last_scanned_cnt to wilc_priv struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 06/26] staging: wilc1000: move during_ip_timer & wilc_optaining_ip to 'wilc_vif' struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 07/26] staging: wilc1000: remove unused variable 'op_ifcs' Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 08/26] staging: wilc1000: avoid use of extra 'if' condition in wilc_init() Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 09/26] staging: wilc1000: move static variable clients_count to 'wilc' structure Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 10/26] staging: wilc1000: refactor code to avoid use of wilc_set_multicast_list global Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 11/26] staging: wilc1000: move hif_workqueue static variables to 'wilc' structure Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 12/26] staging: wilc1000: move 'periodic_rssi' as part of 'wilc_vif' struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 13/26] staging: wilc1000: rename 'dummy_statistics' variable to 'periodic_stat' Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 14/26] staging: wilc1000: move 'rcv_assoc_resp' as part of hif_drv Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 15/26] staging: wilc1000: refactor tcp_process() to avoid extra leading tabs Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 16/26] staging: wilc1000: use lowercase for get_BSSID() and HIL variable Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 17/26] staging: wilc1000: move tcp_ack_filter algo related variables to 'wilc_vif' struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 18/26] staging: wilc1000: avoid line over 80 chars in wilc_wlan_txq_filter_dup_tcp_ack() Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 19/26] staging: wilc1000: use short names to fix over 80 issue in tcp_process() Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 20/26] staging: wilc1000: remove unused code to set and get IP address Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 21/26] staging: wilc1000: move 'chip_ps_state' static variable as part of 'wilc' struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 22/26] staging: wilc1000: move 'wilc_connecting' static variable to 'wilc_vif' struct Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 23/26] staging: wilc1000: remove unnecessary static variable 'p2p_listen_state' Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 24/26] staging: wilc1000: refactor code to move initilization in wilc_netdev_init() Ajay Singh
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 25/26] staging: wilc1000: refactor wilc_netdev_init() to handle memory free in error path Ajay Singh
2018-09-11  9:21   ` Claudiu Beznea
2018-09-10 14:24     ` Ajay Singh [this message]
2018-09-04  6:39 ` [PATCH v2 26/26] staging: wilc1000: remove handle_hif_exit_work() function Ajay Singh

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