[PATCH v3 1/2] tty: hvc: pass DMA capable memory to put_chars()

Jiri Slaby jirislaby at kernel.org
Thu Aug 5 17:58:19 AEST 2021


Hi,

On 04. 08. 21, 4:54, Xianting Tian wrote:
> @@ -933,6 +949,16 @@ struct hvc_struct *hvc_alloc(uint32_t vtermno, int data,
>   	hp->outbuf_size = outbuf_size;
>   	hp->outbuf = &((char *)hp)[ALIGN(sizeof(*hp), sizeof(long))];
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * hvc_con_outbuf is guaranteed to be aligned at least to the
> +	 * size(N_OUTBUF) by kmalloc().
> +	 */
> +	hp->hvc_con_outbuf = kzalloc(N_OUTBUF, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!hp->hvc_con_outbuf)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

This leaks hp, right?

BTW your 2 patches are still not threaded, that is hard to follow.

> +
> +	spin_lock_init(&hp->hvc_con_lock);
> +
>   	tty_port_init(&hp->port);
>   	hp->port.ops = &hvc_port_ops;
>   

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs


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