Re: [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Dec 14 2012 - 10:45:52 EST


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> The function at91_dt_node_to_map is ultimately called by the function
> pinctrl_get, which is an exported function. Since it is possible that this
> function is not called from within a probe function, for safety, the kfree
> is converted to a devm_kfree, to both free the data and remove it from the
> device in a failure situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> v2: Drop cleanup of the call to devm_kzalloc at the same time.

Thanks, applied with Jean-Christophe's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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