linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coresight: perf: Add a missing call to etm_free

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Date:   Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:22:21 +0100
From:   Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@...il.com>
To:     Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coresight: perf: Add a missing call to etm_free_aux


On 11/19/2016 06:41 PM, Quentin Lambert wrote:
> Most error branches following the call to alloc_event_data contain a call to
> etm_free_aux. This patch add a call to etm_free_aux to an error branch
> that does not call it.
>
> This issue was found with Hector.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@...il.com>
> ---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(int event_cpu
>   	 */
>   	sink = coresight_get_enabled_sink(true);
>   	if (!sink)
> -		return NULL;
> +		goto err;
>   
>   	INIT_WORK(&event_data->work, free_event_data);
>   
I realized that I hadn't try to compile after having sent this patch and
I wasn't able to compile it.
Therefore, please ignore it for now.

Quentin