[PATCH] leds: lm3556: Don't call kfree for the memory allocated bydevm_kzalloc

From: Axel Lin
Date: Sun Apr 22 2012 - 10:57:51 EST


The devm_* functions eliminate the need for manual resource releasing
and simplify error handling. Resources allocated by devm_* are freed
automatically on driver detach.

Thus adding kfree calls here will introduce double free bug.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/leds/leds-lm3556.c | 7 ++-----
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-lm3556.c b/drivers/leds/leds-lm3556.c
index cc0abbc..15a5acd 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/leds-lm3556.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lm3556.c
@@ -360,9 +360,8 @@ static int lm3556_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
return -ENODATA;
}

- chip =
- devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, sizeof(struct lm3556_chip_data),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ chip = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, sizeof(struct lm3556_chip_data),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!chip)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -416,7 +415,6 @@ err_create_torch_file:
err_create_flash_file:
err_chip_init:
i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
- kfree(chip);
return err;
}

@@ -430,7 +428,6 @@ static int lm3556_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
led_classdev_unregister(&chip->cdev_flash);
lm3556_write_reg(client, REG_ENABLE, 0);

- kfree(chip);
return 0;
}

--
1.7.5.4



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