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Message-ID: <4C059EE4.5070104@kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:59:32 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
CC:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...ial.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost: apply cpumask and cgroup to vhost workers

On 06/01/2010 07:19 PM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>> -	int i;
>> +	cpumask_var_t mask;
>> +	int i, ret = -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mask, GFP_KERNEL))
>> +		goto out_free_mask;
> 
> I think this is another bug in the error path. You should simply
> do a return instead of a goto here when aloc_cpu_mask fails.

Oh... it's always safe to call free_cpumask_var() after failed
alloc_cpumask_var(), so that part isn't broken.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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