Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Clear constraints pointer after free on error path

Charles Keepax
2016-01-26T15:57:35Z

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:34:54PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:14:16PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
>
> > As we now free the constraints in regulator_dev_release we will still
> > call free on the constraints pointer even if we went down an error path
> > in regulator_register, as such we need to clear to the pointer to ensure
> > the kfree in regulator_dev_release is a no-op.
>
> No, this is just making things worse - if we're doing the free in the
> release we should be doing the free in the release not sometimes maybey
> in the release.

Fair enough I will respin to remove the other free's.

Thanks,
Charles