[PATCH 4/5] kernel handling of memory DLPAR
Andrey Panin
pazke at centrinvest.ru
Mon Sep 14 16:39:11 EST 2009
On 254, 09 11, 2009 at 04:14:35PM -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> This adds the capability to DLPAR add and remove memory from the kernel. The
> patch extends the powerpc handling of memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(), which is
> called from the sysfs memory 'probe' file to first ensure that the memory
> has been added to the system. This is done by creating a platform specific
> callout from the routine. The pseries implementation of this handles the
> DLPAR work to add the memory to the system and update the device tree.
>
> The patch also creates a pseries only 'release' sys file,
> /sys/devices/system/memory/release. This file handles the DLPAR
> release of
> memory back to firmware and updating of the device-tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at austin.ibm.com>
> +static struct property *clone_property(struct property *old_prop)
> +{
> + struct property *new_prop;
> +
> + new_prop = kzalloc((sizeof *new_prop), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!new_prop)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + new_prop->name = kzalloc(strlen(old_prop->name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> + new_prop->value = kzalloc(old_prop->length + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
Memory leak here. What if one kzalloc() succeeded and another failed ?
> + if (!new_prop->name || !new_prop->value) {
> + free_property(new_prop);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> + strcpy(new_prop->name, old_prop->name);
> + memcpy(new_prop->value, old_prop->value, old_prop->length);
> + new_prop->length = old_prop->length;
> +
> + return new_prop;
> +}
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