From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>,
Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] staging/comedi/drivers: free allocated priv and release resources if comedi_alloc_subdevices
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 18:32:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120701153218.GB4462@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341150127-13162-1-git-send-email-devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 07:12:07PM +0530, Devendra Naga wrote:
> as comedi_alloc_subdevices may fail, we leak out the memory allocated by alloc_private,
> and also the I/O regions we requested.
>
> free out the private data pointer of the driver, and release the I/O regions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
This breaks the build.
Also Hartley and Ian, what's the point of alloc_private()? It's
just hiding stuff which we need to know about and use later on
anyway.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-01 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-01 13:42 [PATCH V2 2/2] staging/comedi/drivers: free allocated priv and release resources if comedi_alloc_subdevices Devendra Naga
2012-07-01 15:32 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-07-01 16:06 ` devendra.aaru
2012-07-01 16:08 ` devendra.aaru
2012-07-02 8:54 ` Ian Abbott
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