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Message-ID: <5051D4D4.7060906@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:43:00 +0200
From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] gcov: cleanup an allocation in new_node()
On 11.09.2012 13:13, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 1) kcalloc(1, ...) can be replaced with kzalloc().
> 2) There was a small leak if the debugfs_create_dir() fails.
> 3) I removed a pr_warning("out of memory\n") because kmalloc() already
> prints a more useful failure message in the unlikely case of an
> allocation failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/gcov/fs.c b/kernel/gcov/fs.c
> index 9bd0934..132168f 100644
> --- a/kernel/gcov/fs.c
> +++ b/kernel/gcov/fs.c
> @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static struct gcov_node *new_node(struct gcov_node *parent,
> if (!node)
> goto err_nomem;
> if (info) {
> - node->loaded_info = kcalloc(1, sizeof(struct gcov_info *),
> + node->loaded_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct gcov_info *),
> GFP_KERNEL);
I'd like to keep using kcalloc here since node->loaded_info is an array.
> if (!node->loaded_info)
> goto err_nomem;
> @@ -451,8 +451,7 @@ static struct gcov_node *new_node(struct gcov_node *parent,
> node->dentry = debugfs_create_dir(node->name, parent->dentry);
> if (!node->dentry) {
> pr_warning("could not create file\n");
> - kfree(node);
> - return NULL;
> + goto err_info;
I agree that this is a potential memory leak - good find!
> }
> if (info)
> add_links(node, parent->dentry);
> @@ -461,9 +460,11 @@ static struct gcov_node *new_node(struct gcov_node *parent,
>
> return node;
>
> +err_info:
> + if (info)
> + kfree(node->loaded_info);
The 'if' here is not necessary: node->loaded_info is either zero (kfree
tolerates NULL) or requires freeing. With the removal of the pr_warning
below, the additional kfree can also be added to err_nomem (no need for
another label) though then it should probably also be renamed.
> err_nomem:
> kfree(node);
> - pr_warning("out of memory\n");
> return NULL;
> }
>
>
Regards,
Peter Oberparleiter
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Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on System z Development - IBM Germany
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