Re: [PATCH v2] serial: rewrite pxa2xx-uart to use 8250_core

From: Sascha Hauer
Date: Mon Dec 09 2013 - 03:45:11 EST


On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 10:38:15AM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + err_clk:
> > + clk_unprepare(data->clk);
> > + err_free_clk:
> > + devm_clk_put(&pdev->dev, data->clk);
> > + err_free:
> > + devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, data);
>
> And there labels could be dropped.

This should really be fixed. Explicitly releasing devm_* allocated
resources invalidates the whole idea of the devm functions. People
looking for templates shouldn't find examples for this in the kernel.

Sascha

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