Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2017-08-21

Re: [PATCH] mt7601u: check memory allocation failure

From: Jakub Kicinski <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-21 21:41:45
Also in: kernel-janitors, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mediatek, lkml, netdev

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:34:30 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:59:56 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
quoted
Check memory allocation failure and return -ENOMEM in such a case, as
already done a few lines below

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <redacted>  
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <redacted>
Wait, I take that back.  This code is a bit weird.  We would return an
error, then mt7601u_dma_init() will call mt7601u_free_tx_queue() which
doesn't check for tx_q == NULL condition.

Looks like mt7601u_free_tx() has to check for dev->tx_q == NULL and
return early if that's the case.  Or mt7601u_alloc_tx() should really
clean things up on it's own on failure.  Ugh.
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