linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] RDMA/rtrs: fix potential resources leaks

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Message-ID: <20200619144618.GO6578@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:46:18 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@...ud.ionos.com>
Cc:     Bo YU <tsu.yubo@...il.com>,
        Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@...ud.ionos.com>,
        ledford@...hat.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] RDMA/rtrs: fix potential resources leaks

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote:
> Hi, Bo,
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 3:10 PM Bo YU <tsu.yubo@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dev is returned from allocation function kzalloc but it does not
> > free it in out_err path.
> If allocation failed, kzalloc return NULL, nothing to free.

You should re-organize this to not confuse coverity.

IS_ERR_OR_NULL should rarely be used and is the problem here

Jason