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authorThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>2010-11-09 21:31:44 +0100
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2010-11-10 11:52:19 +1000
commit7dfbbdcffebc41441e64278961f57d2840a76259 (patch)
tree5a536fdc99de855160409a33f5049ebb503c66de /include/drm
parent2b66b50b12cabc05f05543e792d4c9c2465d5702 (diff)
downloadlinux-7dfbbdcffebc41441e64278961f57d2840a76259.tar.bz2
drm/ttm: Be consistent on ttm_bo_init() failures
Call destroy() on _all_ ttm_bo_init() failures, and make sure that behavior is documented in the function description. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/drm')
-rw-r--r--include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
index 5afa5b52063e..beafc156a535 100644
--- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
+++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_api.h
@@ -432,6 +432,10 @@ extern void ttm_bo_synccpu_write_release(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo);
* together with the @destroy function,
* enables driver-specific objects derived from a ttm_buffer_object.
* On successful return, the object kref and list_kref are set to 1.
+ * If a failure occurs, the function will call the @destroy function, or
+ * kfree() if @destroy is NULL. Thus, after a failure, dereferencing @bo is
+ * illegal and will likely cause memory corruption.
+ *
* Returns
* -ENOMEM: Out of memory.
* -EINVAL: Invalid placement flags.