Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2019 21:49:02 +0530 | From | Hariprasad Kelam <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rqchip/stm32: Remove unneeded call to kfree |
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:26:09AM +0100, Steven Price wrote: > On 19/07/2019 19:46, Hariprasad Kelam wrote: > > Memory allocated by devm_ alloc will be freed upon device detachment. So > > we may not require free memory. > > > > Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@gmail.com> > > --- > > drivers/irqchip/irq-stm32-exti.c | 2 -- > > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-stm32-exti.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-stm32-exti.c > > index e00f2fa..46ec0af 100644 > > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-stm32-exti.c > > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-stm32-exti.c > > @@ -779,8 +779,6 @@ static int __init stm32_exti_init(const struct stm32_exti_drv_data *drv_data, > > irq_domain_remove(domain); > > out_unmap: > > iounmap(host_data->base); > > - kfree(host_data->chips_data); > > - kfree(host_data); > > In the commit this is based on these variables are not allocated using a > devm_ alloc function: > > $ git show e00f2fa | grep -A12 *stm32_exti_host_init > > stm32_exti_host_data *stm32_exti_host_init(const struct stm32_exti_drv_data *dd, > > struct device_node *node) > > { > > struct stm32_exti_host_data *host_data; > > > > host_data = kzalloc(sizeof(*host_data), GFP_KERNEL); > > if (!host_data) > > return NULL; > > > > host_data->drv_data = dd; > > host_data->chips_data = kcalloc(dd->bank_nr, > > sizeof(struct stm32_exti_chip_data), > > GFP_KERNEL); > The function stm32_exti_probe *does* use devm_k?alloc, so perhaps you > were getting confused with that? > > Steve > Yes thanks for explanation. Please ignore this patch
Thanks, Hariprasad k > > return ret; > > } > > > > >
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