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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "Zach Brown" <zab@zabbo.net>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/13] maestro3 vfree NULL check fixup
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:22:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602242222.31659.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490602241318y69966ce6yc0907e89af559978@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 24 February 2006 22:18, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 2/24/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 24 February 2006 22:09, Zach Brown wrote:
> > > Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > vfree() checks for NULL, no need to do it explicitly.
> > >
> > > >  static void free_dsp_suspendmem(struct m3_card *card)
> > > >  {
> > > > -   if(card->suspend_mem)
> > > > -       vfree(card->suspend_mem);
> > > > +    vfree(card->suspend_mem);
> > > >  }
> > >
> > > eh, I'd just get rid of the helper and call vfree() from both sites.
> > >
> > makes perfect sense, I just looked for vfree use - should have checked more
> > in-depth.
> >
[snip]
> Arrgh, I'm an idiot. That patch is wrong.
> 
> Sorry, updated patch in 2 min.
> 

Don't check pointers for NULL before calling vfree and get rid
of a pointless helper function in sound/oss/maestro3.c


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

 sound/oss/maestro3.c |   10 ++--------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.16-rc4-mm2-orig/sound/oss/maestro3.c	2006-02-24 19:25:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc4-mm2/sound/oss/maestro3.c	2006-02-24 22:19:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -2582,15 +2582,9 @@ static int alloc_dsp_suspendmem(struct m
 
     return 0;
 }
-static void free_dsp_suspendmem(struct m3_card *card)
-{
-   if(card->suspend_mem)
-       vfree(card->suspend_mem);
-}
 
 #else
 #define alloc_dsp_suspendmem(args...) 0
-#define free_dsp_suspendmem(args...) 
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -2717,7 +2711,7 @@ out:
     if(ret) {
         if(card->iobase)
             release_region(pci_resource_start(pci_dev, 0), pci_resource_len(pci_dev, 0));
-        free_dsp_suspendmem(card);
+        vfree(card->suspend_mem);
         if(card->ac97) {
             unregister_sound_mixer(card->ac97->dev_mixer);
             kfree(card->ac97);
@@ -2760,7 +2754,7 @@ static void m3_remove(struct pci_dev *pc
         }
 
         release_region(card->iobase, 256);
-        free_dsp_suspendmem(card);
+        vfree(card->suspend_mem);
         kfree(card);
     }
     devs = NULL;




  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-24 20:48 [PATCH 07/13] maestro3 vfree NULL check fixup Jesper Juhl
2006-02-24 21:09 ` Zach Brown
2006-02-24 21:17   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-24 21:18     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-24 21:22       ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2006-02-24 21:25         ` Zach Brown

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