linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] arch/mips/txx9: introduce missing kfree, iounmap

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Date:	Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:25:48 +0900 (JST)
From:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
To:	julia@...u.dk
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] arch/mips/txx9: introduce missing kfree, iounmap

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:21:00 +0200 (CEST), Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk> wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.
> Error handling code following an ioremap should iounmap the allocated data.
> 
> The semantic match that finds the first problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Thank you for finding this out.

This patch add some correctness, but obviously incomplete: there are
more error pathes without iounmap/kfree/etc. in this function.

And I like goto-style cleanup, as Mark Brown said in reply for your
sound/soc patch.

Could you make a new patch?

---
Atsushi Nemoto
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