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Message-ID: <ce9ab5790907300734l134c8d4agcf8b22b40129b8d9@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:04:22 +0530
From: vimal singh <vimal.newwork@...il.com>
To: Stoyan Gaydarov <sgayda2@...c.edu>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David.Woodhouse@...el.com,
sr@...x.de, kay.sievers@...y.org, gregkh@...e.de,
linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [mtd] fixed faulty check
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Stoyan Gaydarov<sgayda2@...c.edu> wrote:
> vimal singh wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Sebastian Andrzej
> Siewior<bigeasy@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
>
> vimal singh wrote:
>
>
> What if you go to 'err_out' due to some other error?? Do not you need
> to free 'info'?
>
>
> We have to and of_flash_remove() takes care of it.
>
>
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>
> Does this mean that the original patch is fine or does it still need the
> kfree? From what i understand when going to err_out it will take care of
> info using of_flash_remove() so then it is not needed in the if check.
Yes.
But I think, you should still correct freeing 'mtd_list' in the label,
when you jump there even before memory gets allocated for that.
-vimal
>
> -Stoyan
>
> that's correct...
>
>
>
> The initial patch would be shorter if
> dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, info);
> would be moved prior the kzalloc()
>
> Sebastian
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