linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] INPUT: fix hidinput_connect ignoring retval from input_register

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:28:36 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...ux.intel.com>
cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] INPUT: fix hidinput_connect ignoring retval from
 input_register_device

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Dirk Hohndel wrote:

> 	hidinput = kzalloc(sizeof(*hidinput), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	input_dev = input_allocate_device();
> 	if (!hidinput || !input_dev) {
> 		kfree(hidinput);
> 		input_free_device(input_dev);
> This either passes a NULL pointer to kfree or to input_free_device. That's
> not nice.

Actually both of the cases are fine -- it is valid to pass NULL pointer to 
kfree() and to input_free_device() too.

> Would something like this work?

Yes, I think that this patch is in principle fine, modulo the redundant 
NULL-ptr checks.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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