lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Mar]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
Patch in this message
/
From
Subject[PATCH 1/4] base: soc: use put_device() instead of kfree()
Date
Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
---
drivers/base/soc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/soc.c b/drivers/base/soc.c
index 4e80f48..10b280f 100644
--- a/drivers/base/soc.c
+++ b/drivers/base/soc.c
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ struct soc_device *soc_device_register(struct soc_device_attribute *soc_dev_attr

out3:
ida_simple_remove(&soc_ida, soc_dev->soc_dev_num);
+ put_device(&soc_dev->dev);
+ soc_dev = NULL;
out2:
kfree(soc_dev);
out1:
--
2.7.4
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-03-11 06:57    [W:0.046 / U:0.424 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site