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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 05:17:26PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> And I guess that eg using kfree to free something allocated using
> devm_kzalloc would be completely wrong, leading to a dangling
> pointer?

I'd expect that matching kfree() with devm_kzalloc() would lead to an
attempt to double free whenever the devm_ mechanism kicks in.