[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.5 6/6] thermal/drivers/sun8i: Free calibration nvmem after reading it

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Sat Sep 9 05:37:19 PDT 2023


On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 09:12:54PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> 
> [ Upstream commit c51592a95f360aabf2b8a5691c550e1749dc41eb ]
> 
> The sun8i thermal driver reads calibration data via the nvmem API at
> startup, updating the device configuration and not referencing the data
> again.  Rather than explicitly freeing the nvmem data the driver relies
> on devm_ to release it, even though the data is never referenced again.
> The allocation is still tracked so it's not leaked but this is notable
> when looking at the code and is a little wasteful so let's instead
> explicitly free the nvmem after we're done with it.

This is a minor cleanup which as with so much of what's come in today's
backports seems very questionable for stable.
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