[PATCH] eeprom: idt_89hpesx: Discard memory freeing allocated by devm_kmalloc

From: Serge Semin
Date: Thu Jan 26 2017 - 08:00:50 EST


Indeed, the data structure is allocated by device resource manager,
so the driver doesn't need to free anything on remove() callback.

Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/eeprom/idt_89hpesx.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/idt_89hpesx.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/idt_89hpesx.c
index 25d47d0..f73fd04 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/idt_89hpesx.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/idt_89hpesx.c
@@ -1227,9 +1227,6 @@ static void idt_free_pdev(struct idt_89hpesx_dev *pdev)
{
/* Clear driver data from device private field */
i2c_set_clientdata(pdev->client, NULL);
-
- /* Just free memory allocated for data */
- devm_kfree(&pdev->client->dev, pdev);
}

/*
--
2.6.6