Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:45:37PM +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> This patch moves data allocated using kzalloc to managed data allocated
> using devm_kzalloc and cleans now unnecessary kfrees in probe and remove
> functions. Also, the unnecessary label out_free is removed.
> 
> The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change:
> 
> @platform@
> identifier p, probefn, removefn;
> @@
> struct platform_driver p = {
>   .probe = probefn,
>   .remove = removefn,
> };
> 
> @prb@
> identifier platform.probefn, pdev;
> expression e, e1, e2;
> @@
> probefn(struct platform_device *pdev, ...) {
>   <+...
> - e = kzalloc(e1, e2)
> + e = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, e1, e2)
>   ...
> ?-kfree(e);
>   ...+>
> }
> 
> @rem depends on prb@
> identifier platform.removefn;
> expression e;
> @@
> removefn(...) {
>   <...
> - kfree(e);
>   ...>
> }
> 
> Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>

Applied to -next, just for the sake of it, but frankly that driver
is screwed up so badly that it is pretty much unusable anyway.
Almost all of its attributes are non-standard, and for most of them
that is completely unnecsssary.

Maybe we should create a to-be-removed list and put it there
as first candidate.

Guenter