[PATCH V2 01/22] net-next: mediatek: use mdiobus_free() in favour of kfree()

John Crispin john at phrozen.org
Mon May 9 03:03:53 PDT 2016


The driver currently uses kfree() to clear the mii_bus. This is not the
correct way to clear the memory and mdiobus_free() should be used instead.
This patch fixes the two instances where this happens in the driver.

Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index c984462..28f169f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int mtk_mdio_init(struct mtk_eth *eth)
 	return 0;
 
 err_free_bus:
-	kfree(eth->mii_bus);
+	mdiobus_free(eth->mii_bus);
 
 err_put_node:
 	of_node_put(mii_np);
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ static void mtk_mdio_cleanup(struct mtk_eth *eth)
 
 	mdiobus_unregister(eth->mii_bus);
 	of_node_put(eth->mii_bus->dev.of_node);
-	kfree(eth->mii_bus);
+	mdiobus_free(eth->mii_bus);
 }
 
 static inline void mtk_irq_disable(struct mtk_eth *eth, u32 mask)
-- 
1.7.10.4




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