Re: depmod problem for 2.5.2-dj4

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:24:36PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:44:14AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:54:05PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Vojtech, is this a USB function that you want added to usb.c?
> > 
> > Yes, please. This will change later when Pat Mochels devicefs kicks in,
> > but for the time being, it'd be very useful.
> 
> Here's a patch against 2.5.3-pre3, does it look ok to you (I fixed the
> potential memory leak in the second kmalloc call from what was in
> 2.5.2-dj4)?

Oops, more memory leak fixes:

> diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/usb.c b/drivers/usb/usb.c
> --- a/drivers/usb/usb.c	Wed Jan 23 13:20:28 2002
> +++ b/drivers/usb/usb.c	Wed Jan 23 13:20:28 2002
> @@ -2513,6 +2513,49 @@
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * usb_make_path - returns device path in the hub tree
> + * @dev: the device whose path is being constructed
> + * @buf: where to put the string
> + * @size: how big is "buf"?
> + *
> + * Returns length of the string (>= 0) or out of memory status (< 0).
> + */
> +int usb_make_path(struct usb_device *dev, char *buf, size_t size)
> +{
> +	struct usb_device *pdev = dev->parent;
> +	char *tmp;
> +	char *port;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	if (!(port = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)))
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (!(tmp = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL))) {
> +		kfree(port);
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
> +
> +	*port = 0;
> +
> +	while (pdev) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < pdev->maxchild; i++)
> +			if (pdev->children[i] == dev)
> +				break;
> +
> +		if (pdev->children[i] != dev)
> +			return -1;

Should be:
		if (pdev->children[i] != dev) {
			kfree(port);
			kfree(tmp);
			return -ENODEV;
		}

> +
> +		strcpy(tmp, port);
> +		snprintf(port, size, strlen(port) ? "%d.%s" : "%d", i + 1, tmp);
> +
> +		dev = pdev;
> +		pdev = dev->parent;
> +	}
> +
> +	snprintf(buf, size, "usb%d:%s", dev->bus->busnum, port);

And add:
	kfree(port);
	kfree(tmp);

> +	return strlen(buf);
> +}


Does that look better?

thanks,

greg k-h