linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Google VPD: Fix memory allocation error handling

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Date:   Sat, 6 May 2017 11:40:04 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        thierry.escande@...labora.com, wnhuang@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Google VPD: Fix memory allocation error
 handling

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 12:56:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:08:44PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > This patch fixes several issues:
> >    - if the 1st 'kzalloc' fails, we dereference a NULL pointer
> >    - if the 2nd 'kzalloc' fails, there is a memory leak
> >    - if 'sysfs_create_bin_file' fails there is also a memory leak
> 
> Then it should be multiple patches, not fixing 3 things in one patch,
> right?
> 

I agree with Christophe that this is basically one thing.  Otherwise you
end up breaking it up how Elfring does it into tiny tiny snippets that I
can't read.  Doing it this way is easier to review for me.

regards,
dan carpenter