Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] net: dsa: add missing kfree on remove

From: Neil Armstrong <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:25:33 +0100

On 10/03/2015 10:54 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 10/3/2015 6:20 PM, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> 
>>> On 10/3/2015 5:25 PM, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>>> To prevent memory leakage on unbinding, add missing kfree calls.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <[email-masked]>
>>>> ---
>>>>    net/dsa/dsa.c | 5 ++++-
>>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa.c b/net/dsa/dsa.c
>>>> index c59fa5d..12cec40 100644
>>>> --- a/net/dsa/dsa.c
>>>> +++ b/net/dsa/dsa.c
>>>> @@ -914,8 +914,10 @@ static void dsa_remove_dst(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst)
>>>>        for (i = 0; i < dst->pd->nr_chips; i++) {
>>>>            struct dsa_switch *ds = dst->ds[i];
>>>>
>>>> -        if (ds != NULL)
>>>> +        if (ds != NULL) {
>>>
>>>     Didn;t scripts/checkpatch.pl complain here? just if (ds) is preferred in the networking code.
>>>
>>> MBR, Sergei
>>>
>> Yes,
>>
>> But I considered the cosmetic changes are not the subject of this serie.
> 
>    Formally, all the patches should be checkpatch-clean...
> 
>> Neil
> 
> MBR, Sergei
> 
Sure,

How should I handle this case ?
A separate patch with the cosmetic change before the kfree addition ?

Neil