[PATCH v2] console: console: Complete exception handling in newport_probe()
Dejin Zheng
zhengdejin5 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 16:03:56 UTC 2020
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 05:52:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:26 PM Dejin Zheng <zhengdejin5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A call of the function do_take_over_console() can fail here.
> > The corresponding system resources were not released then.
> > Thus add a call of the function iounmap() together with the check
> > of a failure predicate.
>
> ...
>
> > CC: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com>
>
> Use Cc: Better to read.
>
I will pay attention to the next submission, thanks.
> ...
>
> > v1 -> v2:
> > - modify the commit comments by Markus'suggestion.
>
> What suggestion? You need to be clear in changelog what exactly has
> been done without looking to any previous mail.
>
The commit comments have some more appropriate instructions by
Markus'suggestion. here is my first version commit comments:
if do_take_over_console() return an error in the newport_probe(),
due to the io virtual address is not released, it will cause a leak.
Thnaks!
> ...
>
> > console_lock();
> > err = do_take_over_console(&newport_con, 0, MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1, 1);
> > console_unlock();
> > +
> > + if (err)
> > + iounmap((void *)npregs);
> > return err;
> > }
>
> I have briefly looked at the code (it is actually quite old one!), and
> I think this is half-baked solution, besides the fact of missed
> __iomem annotation and useless explicit casting.
> The proper one seems to switch to memremap() and do memunmap() here.
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
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