[RFC] Generic VME UIO
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Jul 23 07:29:31 UTC 2015
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 09:09:06PM +0300, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote:
> + for (level = 1; level <= 7; level++) {
> + char *level_node_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%d", level);
> + struct kobject *level_node = kobject_create_and_add(
> + level_node_name, kobj);
> + if (!level_node)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>From the zero day testing results, what I've noticed is that allocations
in the initializer are more error prone. You should be testing the
results from kasprintf() and there is a leak if the "level_node"
allocation fails.
char *level_node_name;
struct kobject *level_node;
level_node_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%d", level);
if (!level_node_name)
return -ENOMEM;
level_node = kobject_create_and_add(level_node_name, kobj);
if (!level_node) {
kfree(level_node_name);
return -ENOMEM;
}
The other advantage to writing it like this is that you don't run into
the 80 char limit.
regards,
dan carpenter
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