Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Clear constraints pointer after free on error path

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jan 26 2016 - 10:35:08 EST


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:14:16PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:

> As we now free the constraints in regulator_dev_release we will still
> call free on the constraints pointer even if we went down an error path
> in regulator_register, as such we need to clear to the pointer to ensure
> the kfree in regulator_dev_release is a no-op.

No, this is just making things worse - if we're doing the free in the
release we should be doing the free in the release not sometimes maybey
in the release.

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