[PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a memory leak
KY Srinivasan
kys at microsoft.com
Thu Dec 13 15:29:58 UTC 2012
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter at oracle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:38 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de; apw at canonical.com;
> jasowang at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a memory leak
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:07:17AM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > -probe_error1:
> > +probe_error2:
> > kthread_stop(dm_device.thread);
> >
> > -probe_error0:
> > +probe_error1:
> > vmbus_close(dev->channel);
> > +probe_error0:
> > + kfree(send_buffer);
>
> If you used labels that describe what the code does instead of
> GW-BASIC labels then you wouldn't need to rename them.
>
> err_stop_thread:
> kthread_stop(dm_device.thread);
> err_close_vmbus:
> vmbus_close(dev->channel);
> err_free_send_buf:
> kfree(send_buffer);
Thanks Dan. I am not sure how this labeling scheme would work in general where each error
recovery block is a collection of rollback operation. I see your point though.
Regards,
K. Y
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