From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757570Ab2CTHUg (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:20:36 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:41277 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756898Ab2CTHUG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:20:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:19:57 +0100 From: Sascha Hauer To: Saravana Kannan Cc: Mike Turquette , Arnd Bergman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn , Rob Herring , Russell King , Jeremy Kerr , Thomas Gleixner , Paul Walmsley , Shawn Guo , Jamie Iles , Richard Zhao , Magnus Damm , Mark Brown , Linus Walleij , Stephen Boyd , Amit Kucheria , Deepak Saxena , Grant Likely Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: Fix error handling in fixed clock hardware type register fn Message-ID: <20120320071957.GH3852@pengutronix.de> References: <1332214706-675-1-git-send-email-skannan@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1332214706-675-1-git-send-email-skannan@codeaurora.org> X-Sent-From: Pengutronix Hildesheim X-URL: http://www.pengutronix.de/ X-IRC: #ptxdist @freenode X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Accept-Content-Type: text/plain X-Uptime: 08:17:44 up 128 days, 15:04, 37 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:21e:67ff:fe11:9c5c X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sha@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:38:25PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote: > If memory allocation for the parents array or the parent string fails, then > fail the registration immediately instead of calling clk_register and > hoping it fails there. > > Return -ENOMEM on failure. > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan > Cc: Mike Turquette > Cc: Andrew Lunn > Cc: Rob Herring > Cc: Russell King > Cc: Jeremy Kerr > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Arnd Bergman > Cc: Paul Walmsley > Cc: Shawn Guo > Cc: Sascha Hauer > Cc: Jamie Iles > Cc: Richard Zhao > Cc: Saravana Kannan > Cc: Magnus Damm > Cc: Mark Brown > Cc: Linus Walleij > Cc: Stephen Boyd > Cc: Amit Kucheria > Cc: Deepak Saxena > Cc: Grant Likely > --- > There are still some memory free issues when clk_register() fails, but I will > fix it when I fixed the other register() fns to return ENOMEM of alloc > failure instead of a NULL. > > drivers/clk/clk-fixed-rate.c | 10 +++++++--- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-rate.c b/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-rate.c > index 90c79fb..6423ae9 100644 > --- a/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-rate.c > +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-rate.c > @@ -61,22 +61,26 @@ struct clk *clk_register_fixed_rate(struct device *dev, const char *name, > parent_names = kmalloc(sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL); > > if (! parent_names) > - goto out; > + goto fail_ptr; > > len = sizeof(char) * strlen(parent_name); > > parent_names[0] = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); > > if (!parent_names[0]) > - goto out; > + goto fail_str; > > strncpy(parent_names[0], parent_name, len); > } It's easier to add a char *parent to struct clk_fixed and pass it to clk_register with &fixed->parent. This saves you a kmalloc call and makes the error path simpler. It's the same way already done in the divider. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |