From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:01:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree Message-Id: <20121212170148.GL4398@game.jcrosoft.org> List-Id: References: <1355223525-19165-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <20121212115624.GI4398@game.jcrosoft.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On 15:22 Wed 12 Dec , Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > 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 Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Best Regards, J.