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Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir with a static array

From Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir with a static array
Date 2016-10-11 20:20 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:53:55AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 02:23:15PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > >+	chip->bios_dir[cnt] =
> > > >  	    securityfs_create_file("ascii_bios_measurements",
> > > >-				   S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP, tpm_dir,
> > > >+				   S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP, chip->bios_dir[0],
> > > >  				   (void *)&tpm_ascii_b_measurments_seqops,
> > > >  				   &tpm_bios_measurements_ops);
> 
> > > >+	if (is_bad(chip->bios_dir[cnt]))
> > > >+		goto err;
> 
> > > >+err:
> > > >+	chip->bios_dir[cnt] = NULL;
> > > 
> > > The updated patch looks fine.
> > > Just, I am not sure if NULL assignment is needed.
> > 
> > It's not needed.
> 
> It is required to switch an ERR_PTR to NULL, see is_bad()
> 
> The original version that used a counter in chip did not need it.

Oops, sorry. I added it back. Thanks for pointing this out.

> Jason

/Jarkko

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  [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir with a static array Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-01 21:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-02 23:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-03 14:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-08 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Nayna <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-10-10 21:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-11 13:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Nayna <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-10-11 19:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-11 20:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-10-11 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir  with a static array Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-11 20:20 +0200
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