netdev - Re: ISDN-Gigaset: Release memory in gigaset_initcs() after an allocation failure

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:34:01 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:     gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: ISDN-Gigaset: Release memory in gigaset_initcs() after an
 allocation failure

>> Will it matter here if the function "kfree" will be called for the
>> data structure members "bcs" and "inbuf" after a later function call
>> failed within the implementation of "gigaset_initcs"?
> 
> My translation of this question is: could you please hold my hand while
> I read the code of a driver I do not use - a driver for hardware that I
> don't even have, and therefor cannot really test - after I submitted a
> patch that appears to be broken?

I got the impression that the exception handling  was incomplete in the
implementation of the function "gigaset_initcs".
Does anybody (besides me) care for improving the software situation there?


> My answer to that question is: no, sorry, I won't do that.

I find that the process has just started once more to clarify in which
directions this software module could evolve.

Do we discuss a potential memory leak under special conditions here?

Regards,
Markus