linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 9/9] drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c: Remove useless kfree

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Message-ID: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6026B6FEE@saturn3.aculab.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:31:45 +0100
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Peter Senna Tschudin" <peter.senna@...il.com>,
	"Hansjoerg Lipp" <hjlipp@....de>
Cc:	<kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Tilman Schmidt" <tilman@...p.cc>,
	"Karsten Keil" <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
	<gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 9/9] drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c: Remove useless kfree

> Remove useless kfree() and clean up code related to the removal.
...
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> index aa41485..30a6b17 100644
> --- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> +++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> @@ -1123,7 +1123,6 @@ struct gigaset_driver *gigaset_initdriver(unsigned minor, unsigned minors,
>  	return drv;
> 
>  error:
> -	kfree(drv->cs);
>  	kfree(drv);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> 

Seems to me that (assuming kfree(NULL) is ok) the kfree()
is best left in - just in case some other error path is
added after drv->cs is assigned.
Better safe than a memory leak.

	David



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