Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: endpoint: Free func_name after last usage

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I]

Hi Lorenzo,

On Thursday 22 February 2018 11:49 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:47:06PM +0100, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote:
>> From: Rolf Evers-Fischer <rolf.evers.fischer@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This commit decreases the number of jump labels and ensures
>> that the next commit doesn't increase the number of occurrences
>> of 'kfree(func_name)'.
>>
>> Change-Id: I0d1b6fd652395b85f82b11c43bf9b7db512854d1
>> Signed-off-by: Rolf Evers-Fischer <rolf.evers.fischer@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Rolf Evers-Fischer <embedded24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c | 7 ++-----
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
>> index 766ce1dca2ec..23d0e128d1a5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
>> @@ -220,9 +220,10 @@ struct pci_epf *pci_epf_create(const char *name)
>>  	*buf = '\0';
>>  
>>  	epf->name = kstrdup(func_name, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	kfree(func_name);
> 
> I am certainly missing something but what if we reworked the code
> and just:
> 
> kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> once instead of allocating another local copy (that we then have to
> free) ?

name will be something like pci_epf_test.0 and in epf->name we want to just
have pci_epf_test.
> 
> Reworded: why
> 
> epf->name = func_name;

memory should be allocated for epf->name before it can be initialized. IMO
without kstrdup, there will be a null pointer exception.

Thanks
Kishon