Hi Suzuki,
On Wednesday 06 June 2018 03:13 AM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
commit 6403587a930c ("coresight: use put_device() instead of kfree()")put_device() will decrement the last reference and then
introduced a memory leak where, if we fail to register the device
for coresight_device, we don't free the "coresight_device" object,
which was allocated via kzalloc(). Fix this by jumping to the
appropriate error path.
free the memory by calling dev->release. Internally
put_device() -> kobject_put() -> kobject_cleanup() which is
responsible to call 'dev -> release' and also free other kobject
resources. If you will see the coresight_device_release. There
we are releasing all allocated memory. Still if you call kfree() again
then it'll be redundancy.