On Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:40 AM, Levente Kurusa wrote:
>
> Currently we kfree the container of the device which failed to register.
> This is wrong as the last reference is not given up with a put_device
> call. Also, now that we have put_device() callen, we no longer need
> the kfree as the new_ld->dev.release function will take care of kfreeing
> the associated memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <le...@linux.com>
(+cc Andrew Morton)
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1....@samsung.com>
It looks good.
According to the comment of device_register, put_device()
should be used, instead of directly freeing.
./drivers/base/core.c
* NOTE: _Never_ directly free @dev after calling this function, even
* if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
* reference initialized in this function instead.
*/
int device_register(struct device *dev)
{
device_initialize(dev);
return device_add(dev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_register);
Levente Kurusa,
By the way, don't send the same mails three times, without any
reason. It is the waste of traffic. :-(
Best regards,
Jingoo Han
> ---
> drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
> index 93cf15e..7de847d 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
> @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ struct lcd_device *lcd_device_register(const char *name,
> struct device *parent,
>
> rc = device_register(&new_ld->dev);
> if (rc) {
> - kfree(new_ld);
> + put_device(&new_ld->dev);
> return ERR_PTR(rc);
> }
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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