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 <levex@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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);
> }
(+cc Andrew Morton)
Hi Levente Kurusa,
Would you fix the same thing for 'backlight.c' file?
./drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const char *name,
.....
rc = device_register(&new_bd->dev);
if (rc) {
kfree(new_bd);
return ERR_PTR(rc);
}
Best regards,
Jingoo Han
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