linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxl: Fix kobject memory leak in cxl_sysfs_afu_new

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Date:   Wed, 3 Jun 2020 09:42:41 +0800
From:   "wanghai (M)" <wanghai38@...wei.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>,
        <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
CC:     Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxl: Fix kobject memory leak in cxl_sysfs_afu_new_cr()


在 2020/6/3 1:20, Markus Elfring 写道:
>> Fix it by adding a call to kobject_put() in the error path of
>> kobject_init_and_add().
> Thanks for another completion of the exception handling.
>
> Would an other patch subject be a bit nicer?
Thanks for the guidance, I will perfect this description and send a v2
>
> …
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/sysfs.c
>> @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ static struct afu_config_record *cxl_sysfs_afu_new_cr(struct cxl_afu *afu, int c
>>   	rc = kobject_init_and_add(&cr->kobj, &afu_config_record_type,
>>   				  &afu->dev.kobj, "cr%i", cr->cr);
>>   	if (rc)
>> -		goto err;
>> +		goto err1;
> …
>
> Can an other label be more reasonable here?
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst?id=f359287765c04711ff54fbd11645271d8e5ff763#n465
I just used the original author's label, should I replace all his labels 
like'err','err1' with reasonable one.