From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753522Ab1HTPSm (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:18:42 -0400 Received: from mgw2.diku.dk ([130.225.96.92]:52094 "EHLO mgw2.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752507Ab1HTPSl (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:18:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:18:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Liam Girdwood , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Dong Aisheng , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c: add missing kfree In-Reply-To: <20110820134439.GA2266@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: References: <1313820761-12042-3-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> <20110820134439.GA2266@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Move the test on pdev->id before the kzalloc to avoid requiring kfree when the test fails. This fix was suggested by Wolfram Sang. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ identifier x; expression E1!=0,E2,E3,E4; statement S; iterator I; @@ ( if (...) { ... when != kfree(x) when != x = E3 when != E3 = x * return ...; } ... when != x = E2 when != I(...,x,...) S if (...) { ... when != x = E4 kfree(x); ... return ...; } ) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- diff --git a/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c b/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c index 0b3adae..e9a90e4 100644 --- a/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c +++ b/sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c @@ -519,12 +519,11 @@ static int mxs_saif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct mxs_saif *saif; int ret = 0; + if (pdev->id >= ARRAY_SIZE(mxs_saif)) + return -EINVAL; saif = kzalloc(sizeof(*saif), GFP_KERNEL); if (!saif) return -ENOMEM; - - if (pdev->id >= ARRAY_SIZE(mxs_saif)) - return -EINVAL; mxs_saif[pdev->id] = saif; saif->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);