From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup fails
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:51:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1876cc1-fe27-2e30-332e-67d4345b0dd1@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200212204827.df1de9015a3c03c79a8d7155@linux-foundation.org>
On 2/12/20 8:48 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:14:27 -0800 Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/12/20 3:21 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 11.02.20 06:24, Yang Shi wrote:
>>>> When kstrndup fails (returns NULL) there is no memory is allocated by
>>>> kmalloc, so no need to call kfree().
>>> "When kstrndup fails, no memory was allocated and we can exit directly."
>> Thanks for correcting the commit log.
>>
>> Andrew, do you prefer I send an updated version or you would just update
>> the patch in -mm tree?
> I have already done this.
Thanks!
>
> From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> Subject: mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup fails
>
> When kstrndup fails, no memory was allocated and we can exit directly.
>
> [david@redhat.com: reword changelog]
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581398649-125989-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> mm/vmpressure.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/mm/vmpressure.c~mm-vmpressure-dont-need-call-kfree-if-kstrndup-fails
> +++ a/mm/vmpressure.c
> @@ -371,10 +371,8 @@ int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem
> int ret = 0;
>
> spec_orig = spec = kstrndup(args, MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!spec) {
> - ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto out;
> - }
> + if (!spec)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> /* Find required level */
> token = strsep(&spec, ",");
> _
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-13 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-11 5:24 [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup fails Yang Shi
2020-02-11 5:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmpressure: use mem_cgroup_is_root API Yang Shi
2020-02-12 2:08 ` David Rientjes
2020-02-12 8:23 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-13 3:18 ` Yang Shi
2020-02-12 11:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-12 2:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup fails David Rientjes
2020-02-12 11:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-13 3:14 ` Yang Shi
2020-02-13 4:48 ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-13 4:51 ` Yang Shi [this message]
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