[PATCH 2/3] drivers:input:ps2 Added sunxi A20 ps2 driver, changed makefile and Kconfig

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 05 December 2014 07:01:17 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> On December 5, 2014 2:33:11 AM PST, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> >On Thursday 04 December 2014 04:23:44 vishnupatekar wrote:
> >> +
> >> +struct sunxips2data {
> >> +    int irq;
> >> +    spinlock_t ps2_lock;
> >> +    void __iomem *base_address;     /* virt address of control registers*/
> >> +    struct serio *serio;            /* serio*/
> >> +    struct device *dev;
> >> +    struct  clk     *pclk;
> >> +};
> >
> >As this is dynamically allocated, better embed the serio member
> >directly to avoid allocating both separately.
> 
> That would be wrong - serio is refcounted and it may outlive instance of sunxips2data you embedded it into.

Ok, I see. I guess in this case the use of devm_kzalloc for serio is a bug,
because that would lead to a double free upon module unload, right?

	Arnd