On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<k.kozlow...@samsung.com> wrote:
> 2015-06-19 15:48 GMT+09:00 Chanwoo Choi <cwcho...@gmail.com>:
>> This patch fixes NULL pointer error by removing the unneeded kfree() call
>> of edev->name because extcon-palmas no longer allocate the memory for
>> edev->name.
>
> So the kfree() was executed on pointer returned by
> "dev_name(edev->dev.parent)"?
>
Right.
>
>> Fixes: d71aadda19f8 ("extcon: Remove the optional name of extcon device")
>> Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.c...@samsung.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/extcon/extcon-palmas.c | 7 -------
>> 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon-palmas.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon-palmas.c
>> index 080d5cc..4e7335f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-palmas.c
>> +++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-palmas.c
>> @@ -200,7 +200,6 @@ static int palmas_usb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> status = devm_extcon_dev_register(&pdev->dev, palmas_usb->edev);
>> if (status) {
>> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register extcon device\n");
>> - kfree(palmas_usb->edev->name);
>> return status;
>> }
>>
>> @@ -214,7 +213,6 @@ static int palmas_usb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> if (status < 0) {
>> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't get IRQ %d, err %d\n",
>> palmas_usb->id_irq, status);
>> - kfree(palmas_usb->edev->name);
>> return status;
>> }
>> }
>> @@ -229,7 +227,6 @@ static int palmas_usb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> if (status < 0) {
>> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't get IRQ %d, err %d\n",
>> palmas_usb->vbus_irq, status);
>> - kfree(palmas_usb->edev->name);
>> return status;
>> }
>> }
>> @@ -241,10 +238,6 @@ static int palmas_usb_probe(struct platform_device
>> *pdev)
>>
>> static int palmas_usb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> {
>> - struct palmas_usb *palmas_usb = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>> -
>> - kfree(palmas_usb->edev->name);
>> -
>> return 0;
>> }
>
> The remove function is now no-op so I think you can remove it. The
> platform driver code executes it only if it is non-NULL.
OK.
Thanks,
Chanwoo Choi
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