Re: [PATCH 3/3] sound/soc/soc-core.c: drop kfree of devm_kzalloc's data

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On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 02:00:32PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Using kfree to free data allocated with devm_kzalloc causes double frees.
> 
> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Might it make more sense to devm_kfree() them?  If we don't expect to
immediately abort driver instantiation it'll save having them lying
around for the entire lifetime of the device even if they're not
strictly leaked.
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