Re: [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] spi: dw: Don't call kfree for memory allocated by devm_kzalloc

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On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:05:09PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> From: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
> objections, please let us know.
>

This patch doesn't seem to be applicable to the 3.12 kernel as it
doesn't contain commit 43f627ac9de42 ("spi: dw: fix memory leak on
error path") which introduced the devm_kzalloc() call.

Cheers,
--
Luís

> ===============
> 
> commit c63f5da00845143de621e991ea186be0829647ee upstream.
> 
> With devm_kzalloc, the memory is automatically freed when spi_device detach from
> the bus.
> 
> Fixes: commit 43f627ac9de42 (spi: dw: fix memory leak on error path)
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/spi/spi-dw.c | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
> index 79c958e49f61..3bc156472960 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
> @@ -671,12 +671,6 @@ static int dw_spi_setup(struct spi_device *spi)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void dw_spi_cleanup(struct spi_device *spi)
> -{
> -	struct chip_data *chip = spi_get_ctldata(spi);
> -	kfree(chip);
> -}
> -
>  static int init_queue(struct dw_spi *dws)
>  {
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dws->queue);
> @@ -808,7 +802,6 @@ int dw_spi_add_host(struct dw_spi *dws)
>  	master->bits_per_word_mask = SPI_BPW_MASK(8) | SPI_BPW_MASK(16);
>  	master->bus_num = dws->bus_num;
>  	master->num_chipselect = dws->num_cs;
> -	master->cleanup = dw_spi_cleanup;
>  	master->setup = dw_spi_setup;
>  	master->transfer = dw_spi_transfer;
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.2
> 
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