On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:51 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> scanlog_init() could use some love.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/scanlog.c 
> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/scanlog.c
> index 8e1ef16..e5b0ea8 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/scanlog.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/scanlog.c
> @@ -195,31 +195,30 @@ const struct file_operations scanlog_fops = {
>  static int __init scanlog_init(void)
>  {
>       struct proc_dir_entry *ent;
> +     void *data;
> +     int err = -ENOMEM;
>  
>       ibm_scan_log_dump = rtas_token("ibm,scan-log-dump");
> -     if (ibm_scan_log_dump == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE) {
> -             printk(KERN_ERR "scan-log-dump not implemented on this 
> system\n");
> -             return -EIO;
> -     }
> +     if (ibm_scan_log_dump == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
> +             return -ENODEV;
>  
> -        ent = create_proc_entry("ppc64/rtas/scan-log-dump",  S_IRUSR, NULL);
> -     if (ent) {
> -             ent->proc_fops = &scanlog_fops;
> -             /* Ideally we could allocate a buffer < 4G */
> -             ent->data = kmalloc(RTAS_DATA_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> -             if (!ent->data) {
> -                     printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to allocate a buffer\n");
> -                     remove_proc_entry("scan-log-dump", ent->parent);
> -                     return -ENOMEM;
> -             }
> -             ((unsigned int *)ent->data)[0] = 0;
> -     } else {
> -             printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create ppc64/scan-log-dump proc 
> entry\n");
> -             return -EIO;
> -     }
> +     /* Ideally we could allocate a buffer < 4G */
> +     data = kzalloc(RTAS_DATA_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> +     if (!data)
> +             goto err;

Not your bug, but what happens if data is > 4G? Kaboom?

cheers

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