[PATCH v2] ARM: pxa: ssp: remove unnessary free for devm_xxx

Julia Lawall julia.lawall at lip6.fr
Mon Jun 8 01:21:41 PDT 2015


On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Firo Yang wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:09:31AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Firo Yang wrote:
> >
> >> A Coccinelle warning.
> >> It's not necessary to free memory allocated with devm_xxx
> >> and using these free functions maybe lead to a double free that
> >> will corrupt the resource subsys. So, I just remove them.
> >>
> >> By the way, I replace devm_request_mem_region and devm_ioremap with
> >> devm_ioremap_resource as Julia's suggestion.
> >
> >I think they should be done separately.  The first patch fixes a bug.  The
> >second one just simplifies/modernizes the code.
>
> Ok, I will send another patch with simplified code separately.
> But, what about this patch? Will it be discared?

Maybe you can put a comment under the --- explaining the situation.

julia

>
> >
> >julia
> >
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <firogm at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/plat-pxa/ssp.c | 24 +++---------------------
> >>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-pxa/ssp.c b/arch/arm/plat-pxa/ssp.c
> >> index ad9529c..a278ea0 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/plat-pxa/ssp.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-pxa/ssp.c
> >> @@ -182,21 +182,12 @@ static int pxa_ssp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>  		return -ENODEV;
> >>  	}
> >>
> >> -	res = devm_request_mem_region(dev, res->start, resource_size(res),
> >> -				      pdev->name);
> >> -	if (res == NULL) {
> >> -		dev_err(dev, "failed to request memory resource\n");
> >> -		return -EBUSY;
> >> -	}
> >> +	ssp->mmio_base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, res);
> >> +	if (IS_ERR(ssp->mmio_base))
> >> +		return PTR_ERR(ssp->mmio_base);
> >>
> >>  	ssp->phys_base = res->start;
> >>
> >> -	ssp->mmio_base = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start, resource_size(res));
> >> -	if (ssp->mmio_base == NULL) {
> >> -		dev_err(dev, "failed to ioremap() registers\n");
> >> -		return -ENODEV;
> >> -	}
> >> -
> >>  	ssp->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> >>  	if (ssp->irq < 0) {
> >>  		dev_err(dev, "no IRQ resource defined\n");
> >> @@ -232,25 +223,16 @@ static int pxa_ssp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>
> >>  static int pxa_ssp_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>  {
> >> -	struct resource *res;
> >>  	struct ssp_device *ssp;
> >>
> >>  	ssp = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> >>  	if (ssp == NULL)
> >>  		return -ENODEV;
> >>
> >> -	iounmap(ssp->mmio_base);
> >> -
> >> -	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> >> -	release_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res));
> >> -
> >> -	clk_put(ssp->clk);
> >> -
> >>  	mutex_lock(&ssp_lock);
> >>  	list_del(&ssp->node);
> >>  	mutex_unlock(&ssp_lock);
> >>
> >> -	kfree(ssp);
> >>  	return 0;
> >>  }
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.4.2
> >>
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