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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-07-08 11:17:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-07-08 09:34:08 -0700 |
| commit | 0f2f2221b4ad816567394a52643963428fd353cd (patch) | |
| tree | 9677b25ca9df0bfb59e0bc70e8c19e2b4d3cc0af /drivers/base | |
| parent | d5ce5b40bc66880d1732461d4b47d7fc3331ed30 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0f2f2221b4ad816567394a52643963428fd353cd.tar.bz2 | |
Free struct device in fw_dev_release()
The f_dev in _request_firmware() is allocated via the fw_setup_device()
and fw_register_device() calls and its class set to firmware_class (the
class release function is fw_dev_release).
Commit 6acf70f078ca replaced the kfree(dev) in fw_dev_release() with a
put_device() call but my understanding is that the release function is
called via put_device -> kobject_put -> kref_put -> koject_release etc.
and it should call kfree since it's the last to see this device
structure alive.
Because of that, the _request_firmware() function on its -ENOENT error
path only calls device_unregister(f_dev) which would eventually call
fw_dev_release() but there is no kfree (the subsequent put_device call
would just make the kref negative).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c index ddeb819c8f87..fc466531260e 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static void fw_dev_release(struct device *dev) kfree(fw_priv->pages); kfree(fw_priv->fw_id); kfree(fw_priv); - put_device(dev); + kfree(dev); module_put(THIS_MODULE); } @@ -408,13 +408,11 @@ static int fw_register_device(struct device **dev_p, const char *fw_name, if (retval) { dev_err(device, "%s: device_register failed\n", __func__); put_device(f_dev); - goto error_kfree_fw_id; + return retval; } *dev_p = f_dev; return 0; -error_kfree_fw_id: - kfree(fw_priv->fw_id); error_kfree: kfree(f_dev); kfree(fw_priv); |