linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irq/generic-chip: Fix memory leak of domain->name

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Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:36:05 +0800
From:   jeffy <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq/generic-chip: Fix memory leak of domain->name

Hi Thomas,

On 09/28/2017 11:18 AM, jeffy wrote:
>>
>> I don't think that this is the proper thing to do. There is no reason why
>> the domain should have the same name as the irq chip. So we rather should
>> do:
>>
>>     if (!d->name)
>>         d->name = name;
>>
>> Along with a proper comment.
> that is better, will do it in next version :)

it looks like the __irq_domain_add() would guarantee every domain has a 
valid name, maybe we can just remove this?