From: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>

Using kfree to free data allocated with devm_kzalloc causes double frees.

The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x;
@@

x = devm_kzalloc(...)
...
?-kfree(x);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/mfd/palmas.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/palmas.c b/drivers/mfd/palmas.c
index c4a69f1..92c6fc7 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/palmas.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/palmas.c
@@ -463,7 +463,6 @@ static int __devinit palmas_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client 
*i2c,
 
 err:
        mfd_remove_devices(palmas->dev);
-       kfree(palmas);
        return ret;
 }
 

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