This is a minor cleanup for the management of the private object of this driver. The allocation can be tied to the life-time of the hv_device object. This cleans up a bit the exit & error paths, since the object doesn't need to be explicitly free'd anymore.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardel...@analog.com> --- drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c b/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c index 4dae2320b103..0330ba99730e 100644 --- a/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c +++ b/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c @@ -247,14 +247,14 @@ hv_uio_probe(struct hv_device *dev, return -ENOTSUPP; } - pdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL); + pdata = devm_kzalloc(&dev->device, sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pdata) return -ENOMEM; ret = vmbus_alloc_ring(channel, HV_RING_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE, HV_RING_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE); if (ret) - goto fail; + return ret; set_channel_read_mode(channel, HV_CALL_ISR); @@ -347,8 +347,6 @@ hv_uio_probe(struct hv_device *dev, fail_close: hv_uio_cleanup(dev, pdata); -fail: - kfree(pdata); return ret; } @@ -364,10 +362,8 @@ hv_uio_remove(struct hv_device *dev) sysfs_remove_bin_file(&dev->channel->kobj, &ring_buffer_bin_attr); uio_unregister_device(&pdata->info); hv_uio_cleanup(dev, pdata); - hv_set_drvdata(dev, NULL); vmbus_free_ring(dev->channel); - kfree(pdata); return 0; } -- 2.17.1