From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753191Ab1GZHPq (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:15:46 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:52643 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752668Ab1GZHPl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:15:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1311630170-26057-12-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> References: <1311630170-26057-1-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> <1311630170-26057-12-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> From: Bart Van Assche Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:15:20 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: m18bhlJjdFDQAR5mHqZ9p3Umov8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/25] dynamic_debug: factor show_ddebug_query out of ddebug_parse_query To: Jim Cromie Cc: jbaron@redhat.com, joe@perches.com, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnb@fmeh.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Jim Cromie wrote: > @@ -435,6 +448,10 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query) >        char *split; >        int i, errs = 0, exitcode = 0, rc; > > +       prbuf_query = kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL); > +       if (prbuf_query == NULL) > +               return -ENOMEM; > + >        for (i = 0; query; query = split) { >                split = strpbrk(query, ";\n"); >                if (split) > @@ -452,6 +469,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query) >                } >                i++; >        } > +       kfree(prbuf_query); The above changes invoke memory allocation and deallocation. But the allocated buffer isn't used anywhere - neither in this patch nor in any later patch ??? Bart.