From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-scsifront: Add a missing call to kfree
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:28:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161125202650.GK6266@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320a162-dc36-5833-a746-367134dae5e7@suse.com>
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 07:01:36AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 19/11/16 19:22, Quentin Lambert wrote:
> > Most error branches following the call to kmalloc contain
> > a call to kfree. This patch add these calls where they are
> > missing.
> >
> > This issue was found with Hector.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com>
>
> Nice catch. I think this will need some more work, I'll do a
> follow-on patch.
Yeah. It's weird how we free it on the success path and all the failure
paths except one. But it looks so deliberate. What's going on with
that?
Could you send your follow on patch as a reply to the thread?
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-25 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-19 18:22 [PATCH] xen-scsifront: Add a missing call to kfree Quentin Lambert
2016-11-21 6:01 ` Juergen Gross
2016-11-22 3:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-11-22 5:19 ` Juergen Gross
2016-11-25 21:28 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2016-11-29 10:50 ` [PATCH] xen/scsifront: don't advance ring request pointer in case of error Juergen Gross
2016-11-29 11:14 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <583D712F0200007800123283@suse.com>
2016-11-29 11:19 ` Juergen Gross
2016-11-29 11:28 ` David Vrabel
2016-11-29 11:33 ` Juergen Gross
2016-11-29 11:40 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <583D772D02000078001232DD@suse.com>
2016-11-29 12:33 ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-02 6:10 ` [PATCH v2] xen/scsifront: don't request a slot on the ring until request is ready Juergen Gross
2016-12-02 6:13 ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-02 6:15 ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-05 15:32 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-12-05 15:35 ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-08 14:56 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-12-09 10:13 ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-05 20:53 ` [PATCH] xen-scsifront: Add a missing call to kfree Dan Carpenter
2016-12-06 5:45 ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-06 10:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-11-24 8:24 ` Juergen Gross
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