[PATCH][next] drm/omap: clean up error exit path on omap_encoder allocation failure
Tomi Valkeinen
tomi.valkeinen at ideasonboard.com
Mon Oct 28 08:28:06 UTC 2024
Hi,
On 15/10/2024 17:10, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Currently when an allocation failure occurs for omap_encoder the exit
> path will destroy encoder via omap_encoder_destroy if it is not null.
> However, encoder is always null at this point, so the check and destroy
> is redundant and can be removed. Clean up the code by removing the exit
> path and redundant omap_encoder_destroy call, and just return NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king at gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_encoder.c | 8 +-------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
This is correct, but I think it would make sense to fix the error
handling in omap_encoder_init() fully, instead of just partially:
drm_encoder_init() can return an error, in which case we should free the
omap_encoder.
Could you update the patch to do that too?
Tomi
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_encoder.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_encoder.c
> index 4dd05bc732da..a99022638a2c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_encoder.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_encoder.c
> @@ -126,21 +126,15 @@ struct drm_encoder *omap_encoder_init(struct drm_device *dev,
>
> omap_encoder = kzalloc(sizeof(*omap_encoder), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!omap_encoder)
> - goto fail;
> + return NULL;
>
> omap_encoder->output = output;
>
> encoder = &omap_encoder->base;
>
> drm_encoder_init(dev, encoder, &omap_encoder_funcs,
> DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS, NULL);
> drm_encoder_helper_add(encoder, &omap_encoder_helper_funcs);
>
> return encoder;
> -
> -fail:
> - if (encoder)
> - omap_encoder_destroy(encoder);
> -
> - return NULL;
> }
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