From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:01:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121212170148.GL4398@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212121521590.1995@hadrien>
On 15:22 Wed 12 Dec , Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>
> The function at91_dt_node_to_map is ultimately called by the function
> pinctrl_get, which is an exported function. Since it is possible that this
> function is not called from within a probe function, for safety, the kfree
> is converted to a devm_kfree, to both free the data and remove it from the
> device in a failure situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Best Regards,
J.
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From: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:01:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121212170148.GL4398@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212121521590.1995@hadrien>
On 15:22 Wed 12 Dec , Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>
> The function at91_dt_node_to_map is ultimately called by the function
> pinctrl_get, which is an exported function. Since it is possible that this
> function is not called from within a probe function, for safety, the kfree
> is converted to a devm_kfree, to both free the data and remove it from the
> device in a failure situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Best Regards,
J.
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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:01:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121212170148.GL4398@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212121521590.1995@hadrien>
On 15:22 Wed 12 Dec , Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>
> The function at91_dt_node_to_map is ultimately called by the function
> pinctrl_get, which is an exported function. Since it is possible that this
> function is not called from within a probe function, for safety, the kfree
> is converted to a devm_kfree, to both free the data and remove it from the
> device in a failure situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Best Regards,
J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-12 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 9:58 [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 10:58 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 10:58 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 13:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-12-11 13:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-12-11 13:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-12-11 13:08 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 13:08 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 13:08 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 17:27 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-12-11 18:26 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-12-11 18:26 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-12-12 11:56 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-12-12 11:56 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-12-12 11:56 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-12-12 14:22 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-12 14:22 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-12 14:22 ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-12 17:01 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-12-12 17:01 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-12-12 17:01 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-12-14 15:46 ` Linus Walleij
2012-12-14 15:46 ` Linus Walleij
2012-12-14 15:46 ` Linus Walleij
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