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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jayamohan Kallickal <jayamohan.kallickal@emulex.com>,
	"open list:SERVER ENGINES 10..." <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: be_iscsi: fix possible memory leak and refactor code
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:42:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1384717371.2050.2.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384714284-13712-1-git-send-email-geyslan@gmail.com>

On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 15:51 -0300, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> This patch fix memory leakage in cases 'ISCSI_NET_PARAM_VLAN_ID' and
> 'ISCSI_NET_PARAM_VLAN_PRIORITY' and refactors code 'going out' when
> necessary.

You pointlessly renamed a variable, which makes the diff hard to read.
Please don't do that.

You missed the fact that the passed in pointer is unmodified if
mgmt_get_if_info() returns non zero, so the kfree frees junk and would
oops.

There's no need for a goto; len = -EINVAL; does everything that's
needed.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-17 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-17 18:51 Geyslan G. Bem
2013-11-17 19:42 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2013-11-17 21:09   ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-11-17 21:38     ` James Bottomley
2013-11-18  1:12       ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-11-18 14:58         ` James Bottomley
2013-11-18 16:18           ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-11-18 16:24             ` James Bottomley
2013-11-18 16:42               ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-11-18 19:51                 ` Geyslan Gregório Bem

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