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 05/07/2014 11:37 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> 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.

Hi, now dropped from 3.12. Thanks.

>>
>> 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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