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

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 11:11:34 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@...il.com>,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Navid Emamdoost <emamd001@....edu>, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        Stephen McCamant <smccaman@....edu>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] spi: gpio: prevent memory leak in spi_gpio_probe

> … 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