linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] drivers:iio:accel:mma8452: added cleanup provision in case of failure.

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Message-ID: <d26d071a-47b2-2c69-4718-233ae0d9b13d@kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2016 21:02:41 +0100
From:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:	Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>,
	Bijosh Thykkoottathil <bijosh.t@...mail.com>,
	"knaack.h@....de" <knaack.h@....de>,
	"lars@...afoo.de" <lars@...afoo.de>,
	"pmeerw@...erw.net" <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
	"christoph.muellner@...obroma-systems.com" 
	<christoph.muellner@...obroma-systems.com>
Cc:	"linux-iio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drivers:iio:accel:mma8452: added cleanup provision in
 case of failure.

On 04/07/16 13:20, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> Am 2016-07-04 um 12:08 schrieb Bijosh Thykkoottathil:
>> mma8452_set_freefall_mode can return -ve value in case if
>> i2c_smbus_read_byte_data fails. This function is called from mma8452_probe,
>> and returning -ve value from probe indicates probe failure. Need to call
>> iio_triggered_buffer_cleanup & iio_trigger_cleanup in this case.
> 
> Thanks for your review, nice catch! Looks good to me. You just could
> have said "Don't leak allocated buffer on error during probe().", but oh
> well :)
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bijosh Thykkoottathil <bijosh.t@...mail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>
Applied, thanks.

Jonathan
> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c b/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
>> index e225d3c..1bcf5c3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
>> @@ -1444,8 +1444,8 @@ static int mma8452_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>>  		goto buffer_cleanup;
>>  
>>  	ret = mma8452_set_freefall_mode(data, false);
>> -	if (ret)
>> -		return ret;
>> +	if (ret < 0)
>> +		goto buffer_cleanup;
>>  
>>  	return 0;
>>  
>>