[upstream] mtd/ifc: fix ifc driver memory release issue
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri May 10 08:31:48 EDT 2013
On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 21:28 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang at freescale.com> wrote:
> > memory is allocated by devm_kzalloc, so release it using
> > devm_kfree() instead kfree();
>
> You are correct that it should not be freed with kfree(). But the
> correct solution is that it does not need to be freed (explicitly) at
> all. That's the whole point of the managed allocators (i.e.,
> devm_kzalloc()). Try this patch instead. Totally untested here.
Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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