[PATCH] of: overlay: Stop leaking resources on overlay removal

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 12:20:06 EST


Only the overlay notifier callbacks have a chance to potentially get
hold of references to those two resources, but they do not store them.
So it is safe to stop the intentional leaking.

See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/23/1063 and following.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Ideally, we sort out any remaining worries during the 4.17-rc cycle.

drivers/of/overlay.c | 13 ++-----------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/overlay.c b/drivers/of/overlay.c
index b35fe88f1851..3553f1f57a62 100644
--- a/drivers/of/overlay.c
+++ b/drivers/of/overlay.c
@@ -671,17 +671,8 @@ static void free_overlay_changeset(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs)
of_node_put(ovcs->fragments[i].overlay);
}
kfree(ovcs->fragments);
-
- /*
- * TODO
- *
- * would like to: kfree(ovcs->overlay_tree);
- * but can not since drivers may have pointers into this data
- *
- * would like to: kfree(ovcs->fdt);
- * but can not since drivers may have pointers into this data
- */
-
+ kfree(ovcs->overlay_tree);
+ kfree(ovcs->fdt);
kfree(ovcs);
}

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2.13.6