tree 83d4420bc5cfe429d90b65c265ccbf077a9c857b
parent 9d418dcc6d15539a9567b2ad7fe7473648989f44
author Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> 1407366582 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1407373285 -0700

lib: list_sort_test(): simplify and harden cleanup

There is no reason to maintain the list structure while freeing the
debug elements.  Aside from the redundant pointer manipulations, it is
also inefficient from a locality-of-reference viewpoint, since they are
visited in a random order (wrt.  the order they were allocated).
Furthermore, if we jumped to exit: after detecting list corruption, it
is actually dangerous.

So just free the elements in the order they were allocated, using the
backing array elts.  Allocate that using kcalloc(), so that if
allocation of one of the debug element fails, we just end up calling
kfree(NULL) for the trailing elements.

Minor details: Use sizeof(*elts) instead of sizeof(void *), and return
err immediately when allocation of elts fails, to avoid introducing
another label just before the final return statement.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>