linux-kernel - Re: [1/2] cxl: Fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:20:43 +1000 (AEST)
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
Cc:	Matt Ochs <mrochs@...ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	mikey <mikey@...ling.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [1/2] cxl: Fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init

On Thu, 2015-27-08 at 09:50:18 UTC, Ian Munsie wrote:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
> 
> If the cxl_context_alloc() call fails, we return immediately without
> releasing the reference on the AFU device, allowing it to leak.
> 
> This patch switches to using goto style error handling so that the
> device is released in common code for both error paths, and will also
> simplify things if we add additional initialisation in this function in
> the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/af2a50bb0ce1ca7a9c478481

cheers
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