Re: [PATCH 5/5] drivers/serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure

[Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]

> > I believe this code also leaks earlier instances of port, which are only
> > referenced by card_ptr, which is freed in the error handling code at the
> > end of the function.  A lot of operations are done on port on each
> > iteration, however, so I'm not sure whether it is good enough to just free
> > them.  Perhaps there is some way to call ioc3uart_remove?
> > 
> 
> Yes you are right, there should be something like this for out4:
> 
> out4:
>       for (phys_port = 0; phys_port < PORTS_PER_CARD; phys_port++) {
>               port = card_ptr->ic_port[phys_port].icp_port;
>               if (port) {
>                       pci_free_consistent(port->ip_idd->pdev,
>                                        TOTAL_RING_BUF_SIZE,
>                                        (void *)port->ip_cpu_ringbuf,
>                                        port->ip_dma_ringbuf);
>                       kfree(port);
>               }
>       }
>       kfree(card_ptr);
>       return ret;

Actually, pci_alloc_consistent is only called when phys_port is 0.  In the 
subsequent cases, the ip_dma_ringbuf field is just initialized to the 
previous value.  So it could be:

out4:
        for (phys_port = 0; phys_port < PORTS_PER_CARD; phys_port++) {
                port = card_ptr->ic_port[phys_port].icp_port;
                if (port) {
                        if (phys_port == 0)
                                pci_free_consistent(port->ip_idd->pdev,
                                       TOTAL_RING_BUF_SIZE,
                                       (void *)port->ip_cpu_ringbuf,
                                       port->ip_dma_ringbuf);
                        kfree(port);
                }
        }
        kfree(card_ptr);
        return ret;

julia