Am 30.10.2016 20:35, schrieb Christophe JAILLET:
> 'cxl_context_alloc()' does not return an error pointer. It is just a
> shortcut for a call to 'kzalloc' with 'sizeof(struct cxl_context)' as the
> size parameter.
>
> So its return value should be compared with NULL.
> While fixing it, simplify a bit the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
> un-compiled because I don't have the required cross build environment.
> ---
> drivers/misc/cxl/api.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
> index 2e5233b60971..2b88ad8a2a89 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
> @@ -30,10 +30,8 @@ struct cxl_context *cxl_dev_context_init(struct pci_dev
> *dev)
> return ERR_CAST(afu);
>
> ctx = cxl_context_alloc();
> - if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
> - rc = PTR_ERR(ctx);
> - goto err_dev;
> - }
> + if (!ctx)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
So far i see it is only used 2 times,
To avoid such problems it should be replaced with
kzalloc(sizeof(struct cxl_context), GFP_KERNEL); (from context.c)
or even better:
ctx = kzalloc(*ctx, GFP_KERNEL);
This way the error had been spotted much more early.
just my 2 cents,
re,
wh
> ctx->kernelapi = true;
>
> @@ -61,7 +59,6 @@ struct cxl_context *cxl_dev_context_init(struct pci_dev
> *dev)
> kfree(mapping);
> err_ctx:
> kfree(ctx);
> -err_dev:
> return ERR_PTR(rc);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cxl_dev_context_init);
