Re: depmod problem for 2.5.2-dj4

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@ucw.cz)
Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:47:14 +0100


On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:22:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:24:36PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:44:14AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:54:05PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Vojtech, is this a USB function that you want added to usb.c?
> > >
> > > Yes, please. This will change later when Pat Mochels devicefs kicks in,
> > > but for the time being, it'd be very useful.
> >
> > Here's a patch against 2.5.3-pre3, does it look ok to you (I fixed the
> > potential memory leak in the second kmalloc call from what was in
> > 2.5.2-dj4)?

Yes, this is perfect. *shiver* I can't believe I made the code so leaky.
Sorry for that, it's a copy-paste problem.
Thanks for fixing it.

> Oops, more memory leak fixes:
>
> > diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/usb.c b/drivers/usb/usb.c
> > --- a/drivers/usb/usb.c Wed Jan 23 13:20:28 2002
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/usb.c Wed Jan 23 13:20:28 2002
> > @@ -2513,6 +2513,49 @@
> > return err;
> > }
> >
> > +/**
> > + * usb_make_path - returns device path in the hub tree
> > + * @dev: the device whose path is being constructed
> > + * @buf: where to put the string
> > + * @size: how big is "buf"?
> > + *
> > + * Returns length of the string (>= 0) or out of memory status (< 0).
> > + */
> > +int usb_make_path(struct usb_device *dev, char *buf, size_t size)
> > +{
> > + struct usb_device *pdev = dev->parent;
> > + char *tmp;
> > + char *port;
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + if (!(port = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)))
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + if (!(tmp = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL))) {
> > + kfree(port);
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + }
> > +
> > + *port = 0;
> > +
> > + while (pdev) {
> > + for (i = 0; i < pdev->maxchild; i++)
> > + if (pdev->children[i] == dev)
> > + break;
> > +
> > + if (pdev->children[i] != dev)
> > + return -1;
>
> Should be:
> if (pdev->children[i] != dev) {
> kfree(port);
> kfree(tmp);
> return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> > +
> > + strcpy(tmp, port);
> > + snprintf(port, size, strlen(port) ? "%d.%s" : "%d", i + 1, tmp);
> > +
> > + dev = pdev;
> > + pdev = dev->parent;
> > + }
> > +
> > + snprintf(buf, size, "usb%d:%s", dev->bus->busnum, port);
>
> And add:
> kfree(port);
> kfree(tmp);
>
> > + return strlen(buf);
> > +}
>
>
> Does that look better?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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