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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:45:58 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd/nand : don't free the global data
	fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand in fsl_elbc_chip_remove()
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:20:25 +0300
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:50 +0800, b35362@freescale.com wrote:
> > From: Liu Shuo <b35362@freescale.com>
> > 
> > The global data fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand don't have to be freed in
> > fsl_elbc_chip_remove(). The right place to do that is in fsl_elbc_nand_remove()
> > if elbc_fcm_ctrl->counter is zero.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Shuo <b35362@freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c |    1 -
> >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c
> > index 0bb254c..a212116 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c
> > @@ -829,7 +829,6 @@ static int fsl_elbc_chip_remove(struct fsl_elbc_mtd *priv)
> >  
> >  	elbc_fcm_ctrl->chips[priv->bank] = NULL;
> >  	kfree(priv);
> > -	kfree(elbc_fcm_ctrl);
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> 
> Do we have to assign fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand to NULL in
> fsl_elbc_nand_remove() then? I think that assignment can be killed then.
> 
>         if (!elbc_fcm_ctrl->counter) {
>                 fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand = NULL;
>                 kfree(elbc_fcm_ctrl);
>         }
> 

If we're freeing fsl_lbc_ctrl, we'd better get rid of references to it...

-Scott