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

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Mon Sep 18 10:28:02 PDT 2023


On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 01:37:19PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>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.

I'll drop this, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha



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