Re: [PATCH v2] hwrng: core - Allocate memory during module init

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On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 08:18:02PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> In core rng_buffer and rng_fillbuf is allocated in hwrng_register only
> once and it is freed during module exit. This patch moves allocating
> rng_buffer and rng_fillbuf from hwrng_register to rng core's init. This
> avoids checking whether rng_buffer and rng_fillbuf was allocated from
> every hwrng_register call. Also moving them to module init makes it
> explicit that it is freed in module exit.
> 
> Change in v2:
> Fix memory leak when register_miscdev fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@xxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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