linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] spi: gpio: prevent memory leak in spi_gpio

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 12:32:41 -0500
From:   Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@...il.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, Navid Emamdoost <emamd001@....edu>,
        Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>, Stephen McCamant <smccaman@....edu>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] spi: gpio: prevent memory leak in spi_gpio_probe

Hi Markus, thanks for your suggestions for improving the quality of
the patch. At the moment I prefer first get a confirmation from
contributors about the leak and then work on any possible improvements
for the patch.

Thanks,
Navid.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:11 AM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de> wrote:
>
> > … In order to avoid leak spi_contriller_put must
> > be called in case of failure for devm_add_action_or_reset.
>
> How does this wording fit to the diff display that you would like
> to add the function call “spi_master_put(master)” in
> one if branch?
>
>
> > Fixes: 8b797490b4db ("spi: gpio: Make sure spi_master_put() is called in every error path")
>
> Is there a need to complete the corresponding exception handling
> at any more source code places?
>
> Regards,
> Markus



-- 
Navid.