[Intel-gfx] [patch] drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt: remove some dead code

Joonas Lahtinen joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Tue Feb 7 14:34:57 UTC 2017


On ti, 2017-02-07 at 16:16 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If "caps.buf" is already NULL then it doesn't need to be freed or set to
> NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

<SNIP>

> @@ -965,11 +965,8 @@ static long intel_vgpu_ioctl(struct mdev_device *mdev, unsigned int cmd,
>  			sparse->areas[0].offset =
>  					PAGE_ALIGN(vgpu_aperture_offset(vgpu));
>  			sparse->areas[0].size = vgpu_aperture_sz(vgpu);
> -			if (!caps.buf) {

Looking at the code around, the right thing would be to just remove the
negation? This currently seems like a memory leak.

> -				kfree(caps.buf);
> -				caps.buf = NULL;
> +			if (!caps.buf)
>  				caps.size = 0;
> -			}

And quickly looking, the caps is pre-initialized but unused at this
point, so the whole if could just be removed, right?

Regards, Joonas
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation


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