Re: depmod problem for 2.5.2-dj4

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:22:51 -0800


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)?

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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