Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Don't leak memory in drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c::private_ioctl()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:17:52AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:46:33PM -0400, Xi Wang wrote:
> > > On Apr 11, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > 
> > > > -		pNodeList = (PSNodeList)kmalloc(sizeof(SNodeList) + (sNodeList.uItem * sizeof(SNodeItem)), (int)GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > > +		pNodeList = kmalloc(sizeof(SNodeList) + (sNodeList.uItem * sizeof(SNodeItem)), (int)GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > 
> > > Can you also remove casts like "(int)GFP_ATOMIC"?
> > > 
> > > The parentheses "(sNodeList.uItem * sizeof(SNodeItem))" are also
> > > pointless..
> > 
> > One thing at a time, odds are this is an "automated" patch, right
> > Jesper?
> > 
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "automated patch" Greg. Manually 
> editing the file in emacs, then running "git format-patch", followed by 
> importing the patch file into alpine and sending it off surely didn't 
> feel "automated" ;-)

Sorry, I thought this was scripted, my apologies.

> The only reason I even included the change of the return value cast was 
> that it was the variable I was focusing on with regards to fixing the 
> leak, so it felt "sufficiently related" to include in the same patch.
> I certainly was not on a mission to clean up the file in general - just 
> fixing the leak was all that was really on the agenda.
> I don't *mind* fixing up other issues in the file - sure, I can do that, 
> but that's an entirely different set of patches then...

I agree, this patch is fine as-is, thanks.

greg k-h