linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: ft1000: fix error path

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Message-ID: <4C9F804E.8010902@bfs.de>
Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:18:06 +0200
From:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:	Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@...il.com>
CC:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ft1000: fix error path


hi Marek,
IMHO the alloc sequencs is building a linked list of allocated buffer.
And if  kfree() does no magiclly follow the list this is not working.

re,
 wh


Belisko Marek schrieb:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:59:55PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>>> +err_free:
>>> +     for (i--; i>=0; i--) {
>>> +             kfree(pdpram_blk->pbuffer);
>>> +             kfree(pdpram_blk);
>>> +     }
>> This is wrong.  I don't have linux-next so I can't see the context, why
>> are we looping here?  The second iteration through the loop will cause a
>> NULL dereference.
> Some lines upper there is allocation of structure and it's internal
> buffer in loop:
> for (i=0; i<NUM_OF_FREE_BUFFERS; i++) {
>     // Get memory for DPRAM_DATA link list
>     pdpram_blk = kmalloc ( sizeof(DPRAM_BLK), GFP_KERNEL );
>     // Get a block of memory to store command data
>     pdpram_blk->pbuffer = kmalloc ( MAX_CMD_SQSIZE, GFP_KERNEL );
>     // link provisioning data
>     list_add_tail (&pdpram_blk->list, &freercvpool);
> }
> 
> Free loop is correct in my opinion but kfree should be extended by checking
> of NULL pointer because allocation of pdpram_blk could fail and we free also
> pdpram_blk->pbuffer.
>> Also there should be spaces before and after the ">=".
>>
>> regards,
>> dan carpenter
>>
>>> +     return STATUS_FAILURE;
>>>  }
>>>
>>
> 
> marek
> 
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