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* Re: [net-next:master 209/235] drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c:1134:39-50: ERROR: reference preceded by free on line 1136
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@ 2012-11-08 12:40   ` Fengguang Wu
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From: Fengguang Wu @ 2012-11-08 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Julia Lawall
  Cc: Yuanhan Liu, changlongx.xie, Steve Glendinning,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-usb, LKML

Julia,

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 09:08:04AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> It's a false positive because check_warn_return does a return.

Right.

> But I wonder if there is a way that we can encourage people not to
> do things like that?

Well I suspect the memory leak bug 06a221be0 tries to fix might be
due to check_warn_return() hiding the otherwise very obvious syntax
highlighted 'return' statement.

Thanks,
Fengguang

> >TO: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical•com>
> >CC: netdev@vger•kernel.org
> >
> >
> >Hi Ming,
> >
> >FYI, there are coccinelle warnings in
> >
> >tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git master
> >head:   f1e0b5b4f1eae56a3192688177f36e2bdf0e01ac
> >commit: 06a221be022c2cc98a48e0808a4ef0dc8f0b3a34 [209/235] usbnet: smsc95xx: fix memory leak in smsc95xx_suspend
> >:::::: branch date: 8 hours ago
> >:::::: commit date: 23 hours ago
> >
> >+ drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c:1134:39-50: ERROR: reference preceded by free on line 1136
> > drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c:1139:8-19: ERROR: reference preceded by free on line 1136
> >
> >git remote update net-next
> >git checkout 06a221be022c2cc98a48e0808a4ef0dc8f0b3a34
> >vim +1134 drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
> >
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1128  			offset[filter/4] |= 0x00 << ((filter % 4) * 8);
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1129  			crc[filter/2] |= smsc_crc(dev->net->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN, filter);
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1130  			filter++;
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1131  		}
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1132
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1133  		for (i = 0; i < (pdata->wuff_filter_count * 4); i++) {
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26 @1134  			ret = smsc95xx_write_reg(dev, WUFF, filter_mask[i]);
> >06a221be Ming Lei          2012-11-06  1135  			if (ret < 0)
> >06a221be Ming Lei          2012-11-06 @1136  				kfree(filter_mask);
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1137  			check_warn_return(ret, "Error writing WUFF");
> >bbd9f9ee Steve Glendinning 2012-10-26  1138  		}
> >06a221be Ming Lei          2012-11-06  1139  		kfree(filter_mask);
> >
> >:::::: The code at line 1134 was first introduced by commit:
> >:::::: bbd9f9e smsc95xx: add wol support for more frame types
> >
> >:::::: TO: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell•net>
> >:::::: CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
> >
> >---
> >0-DAY kernel build testing backend         Open Source Technology Center
> >Fengguang Wu, Yuanhan Liu                              Intel Corporation
> >

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