Re: [PATCH] ARM: locomo: fix free dev incorrectly

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:37:55PM +0800, Xiongwei Song wrote:
> In function locomo_init_one_child, If kzalloc call is failed for dev we
> would goto out label, then call kfree for dev, however, dev is NULL, we
> shouldn't do this.

kfree() internally checks for NULL pointers so callers don't have to.
Your patch is not necessary.

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