From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: dsa: Use devm_ prefixed allocations
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:37:55 +0300
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To: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
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On 10/2/2015 4:30 PM, Neil Armstrong wrote:

>>> To simplify and prevent memory leakage when unbinding, use
>>> the devm_ memory allocation calls.
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
>>> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
>>> ---
>>>    net/dsa/dsa.c | 6 +++---
>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa.c b/net/dsa/dsa.c
>>> index c59fa5d..98f94c2 100644
>>> --- a/net/dsa/dsa.c
>>> +++ b/net/dsa/dsa.c
>>> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static int dsa_switch_setup_one(struct dsa_switch *ds, struct device *parent)
>>>        if (ret < 0)
>>>            goto out;
>>>
>>> -    ds->slave_mii_bus = mdiobus_alloc();
>>> +    ds->slave_mii_bus = devm_mdiobus_alloc(parent);
>>>        if (ds->slave_mii_bus == NULL) {
>>>            ret = -ENOMEM;
>>>            goto out;
>>> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ dsa_switch_setup(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst, int index,
>>>        /*
>>>         * Allocate and initialise switch state.
>>>         */
>>> -    ds = kzalloc(sizeof(*ds) + drv->priv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +    ds = devm_kzalloc(parent, sizeof(*ds) + drv->priv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>>>        if (ds == NULL)
>>>            return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>>>
>>> @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static int dsa_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>            goto out;
>>>        }
>>>
>>> -    dst = kzalloc(sizeof(*dst), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +    dst = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dst), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>        if (dst == NULL) {
>>>            dev_put(dev);
>>>            ret = -ENOMEM;
>>>
>>
>>     Shouldn't you remove the correspoding kfree(), etc. calls?
>>
>> MBR, Sergei
>>
> The corresponding kfree() calls were all missing.

    Then this patch should be for net, not net-next. Either that, or add the 
kfree() calls first, then remove them in this net-next patch.

> Neil

MBR, Sergei