From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: sysfs: use put_device() instead of kfree()
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 01:19:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180327231939.GC4097@mithrandir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416c89ec3cff87e842a0ff148df13bed35a44c46.1520502811.git.arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 03:27:37PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
> if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
> reference initialized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/pwm/sysfs.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied, thanks.
Thierry
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2018-03-08 9:57 [PATCH] pwm: sysfs: use put_device() instead of kfree() Arvind Yadav
2018-03-27 23:19 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
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