Re: [PATCH v2] i7core_edac: release resources on error in i7core_create_sysfs_devices

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:40:14AM +0800, Junjie Mao wrote:
> v2: do not call kfree on allocated devs after device_initialize is called
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@hotmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c b/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
> index 9cd0b301f81b..f6a7b676d69c 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/i7core_edac.c
> @@ -1167,17 +1167,17 @@ static int i7core_create_sysfs_devices(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
>  		return rc;
>  	rc = device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_type);
>  	if (rc < 0)
> -		return rc;
> +		goto fail_remove_inject_section;
>  	rc = device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_eccmask);
>  	if (rc < 0)
> -		return rc;
> +		goto fail_remove_inject_type;
>  	rc = device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_enable);
>  	if (rc < 0)
> -		return rc;
> +		goto fail_remove_inject_eccmask;
> 
>  	pvt->addrmatch_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*pvt->addrmatch_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!pvt->addrmatch_dev)
> -		return rc;
> +		goto fail_remove_inject_enable;
> 
>  	pvt->addrmatch_dev->type = &addrmatch_type;
>  	pvt->addrmatch_dev->bus = mci->dev.bus;
> @@ -1190,16 +1190,13 @@ static int i7core_create_sysfs_devices(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
> 
>  	rc = device_add(pvt->addrmatch_dev);
>  	if (rc < 0)
> -		return rc;
> +		goto fail_free_addrmatch_dev;
> 
>  	if (!pvt->is_registered) {
>  		pvt->chancounts_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*pvt->chancounts_dev),
>  					      GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (!pvt->chancounts_dev) {
> -			put_device(pvt->addrmatch_dev);
> -			device_del(pvt->addrmatch_dev);
> -			return rc;
> -		}
> +		if (!pvt->chancounts_dev)
> +			goto fail_del_addrmatch_dev;
> 
>  		pvt->chancounts_dev->type = &all_channel_counts_type;
>  		pvt->chancounts_dev->bus = mci->dev.bus;
> @@ -1211,10 +1208,26 @@ static int i7core_create_sysfs_devices(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
>  		edac_dbg(1, "creating %s\n", dev_name(pvt->chancounts_dev));
> 
>  		rc = device_add(pvt->chancounts_dev);
> -		if (rc < 0)
> -			return rc;
> +		if (rc < 0) {
> +			put_device(pvt->chancounts_dev);
> +			goto fail_del_addrmatch_dev;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	return 0;
> +
> +fail_del_addrmatch_dev:
> +	device_del(pvt->addrmatch_dev);
> +fail_free_addrmatch_dev:
> +	put_device(pvt->addrmatch_dev);
> +fail_remove_inject_enable:
> +	device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_enable);
> +fail_remove_inject_eccmask:
> +	device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_eccmask);
> +fail_remove_inject_type:
> +	device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_type);
> +fail_remove_inject_section:
> +	device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_inject_section);

I don't know the code, but calling device_create_file() on failures
is quite unusual. Are you sure this is correct ?

Guenter