Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] virtio: use put_device instead of kfree

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:24:33 +0800
weiping zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As mentioned at drivers/base/core.c:
> /*
>  * NOTE: _Never_ directly free @dev after calling this function, even
>  * if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
>  * reference initialized in this function instead.
>  */
> so we don't free vp_vdev until vp_vdev.dev.release be called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_main.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
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