From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751731AbbJLH3Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2015 03:29:16 -0400 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:60649 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751393AbbJLH3O (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2015 03:29:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:29:10 +0200 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Julia Lawall , Simon Horman , "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" , Magnus Damm , Russell King , Linux-sh list , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Lunn , Bjorn Helgaas , Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: shmobile: R-Mobile: add missing of_node_put Message-ID: <20151012092910.7580c2b9@free-electrons.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1444480254-14399-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1444480254-14399-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Organization: Free Electrons X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear Geert Uytterhoeven, On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:18:52 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > pd = kzalloc(sizeof(*pd), GFP_KERNEL); > > - if (!pd) > > + if (!pd) { > > + of_node_put(np); > > return -ENOMEM; > > + } > > While technically this patch is correct, the system will be dead anyway if it > ever goes OOM at core_initcall() time. Then BUG_ON(!pd); ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com