netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] ice: Add check for kzalloc

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:31:55 -0800
From:   Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
        Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] ice: Add check for kzalloc

On 1/10/2023 6:26 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon,  9 Jan 2023 14:53:58 -0800 Tony Nguyen wrote:
>> @@ -470,21 +473,23 @@ static struct tty_driver *ice_gnss_create_tty_driver(struct ice_pf *pf)
>>   	err = tty_register_driver(tty_driver);
>>   	if (err) {
>>   		dev_err(dev, "Failed to register TTY driver err=%d\n", err);
>> -
>> -		for (i = 0; i < ICE_GNSS_TTY_MINOR_DEVICES; i++) {
>> -			tty_port_destroy(pf->gnss_tty_port[i]);
>> -			kfree(pf->gnss_tty_port[i]);
>> -		}
>> -		kfree(ttydrv_name);
>> -		tty_driver_kref_put(pf->ice_gnss_tty_driver);
>> -
>> -		return NULL;
>> +		goto err_out;
> 
> FTR I think that depending on i == ICE_GNSS_TTY_MINOR_DEVICES
> here is fragile. I can merge as is, since the code is technically
> correct

Hi Jakub,

Thanks for the suggestion/improvement. This won't be here much longer as 
we will be converting to use the kernel infrastructure [1] soon, but 
will keep this in mind for the future.

This was mainly to ensure the existing implementations got 
corrected/could be backported.

Thanks,
Tony

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20221215231047.3595649-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com/