linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EDAC: altera: Delete an inappropriate dma_free_coherent() call in altr_sdr_mc_err_inject

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Message-ID: <1b3b072e-8db3-4858-8b31-c312ca9c0c9d@web.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:30:40 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Salah Triki <salah.triki@...il.com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>,
 James Morse <james.morse@....com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
 <mchehab@...nel.org>, Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
 Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC: altera: Delete an inappropriate dma_free_coherent()
 call in altr_sdr_mc_err_inject_write()

…> Add a check to ensure that the memory is only freed when the allocation
> was successful.

How good does such a wording fit to the proposed function call deletion?

Regards,
Markus