Re: [PATCH] null_blk: fix memory leak on cleanup

[Matias Bjorling]

Den 02-09-2015 kl. 20:39 skrev Ross Zwisler:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:17:18PM +0200, Matias BjÃrling wrote:
> > From: Matias BjÃrling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Driver was not freeing the memory allocated for internal nullb queues.
> > This patch frees the memory during driver unload.
>
> You may want to consider devm_* style allocations instead.  These are freed
> automatically on driver unload, simplifying your error paths and your unload
> logic as well as preventing leaks.
>
> See this patch for an example:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/10/992

Thanks for looking through the patches. I'll look into it.
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