netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] drivers/net/can/mscan/mpc5xxx_can.c: Add of_node

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Message-Id: <20100901.105955.176668287.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wg@...ndegger.com
Cc:	w.sang@...gutronix.de, julia@...u.dk,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
	socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] drivers/net/can/mscan/mpc5xxx_can.c: Add
 of_node_put to avoid memory leak

From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:22:07 +0200

> On 08/31/2010 09:10 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:44:00PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>> Add a call to of_node_put in the error handling code following a call to
>>> of_find_matching_node.
>>>
>>> This patch also moves the existing call to of_node_put after the call to
>>> iounmap in the error handling code, to make it possible to jump to
>>> of_node_put without doing iounmap.  These appear to be disjoint operations,
>>> so the ordering doesn't matter.
>>>
>>> This patch furthermore changes the -ENODEV result in the error handling
>>> code for of_find_matching_node to a return of 0, as found in the error
>>> handling code for of_iomap, because the return type of the function is
>>> unsigned.
>>>
>>> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
>>> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
 ...
>>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
> 
> Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>

Applied.
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