[PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Wed Dec 12 12:01:48 EST 2012


On 15:22 Wed 12 Dec     , Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
> 
> The function at91_dt_node_to_map is ultimately called by the function
> pinctrl_get, which is an exported function.  Since it is possible that this
> function is not called from within a probe function, for safety, the kfree
> is converted to a devm_kfree, to both free the data and remove it from the
> device in a failure situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>

Best Regards,
J.



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list