Re: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: use put_device() instead of kfree()

[Chanwoo Choi]

Hi,

I'm sorry for the late reply.

On 2018ë 03ì 30ì 20:44, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Never directly free @dev after calling device_register() or
> device_unregister(), even if device_register() returned an error.
> Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> index fe2af6a..a225b94 100644
> --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> @@ -625,7 +625,8 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
>  	err = device_register(&devfreq->dev);
>  	if (err) {
>  		mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
> -		goto err_dev;
> +		put_device(&devfreq->dev);
> +		goto err_out;

why do you change the goto postion?
err_out is correct to free the memory of devfreq instance.

>  	}
>  
>  	devfreq->trans_table =	devm_kzalloc(&devfreq->dev,
> @@ -671,6 +672,7 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
>  	mutex_unlock(&devfreq_list_lock);
>  
>  	device_unregister(&devfreq->dev);
> +	devfreq = NULL;

It is wrong. If you initialize the devfreq as NULL,
never free the 'devfreq' instance.

>  err_dev:
>  	if (devfreq)
>  		kfree(devfreq);
> 


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Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics