From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Greg K-H <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Patch 0/2] Driver core: device_register() and put_device()
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:26:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080903182637.50bec6fd@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
Hi Greg,
recently I stumbled over a bug in my code where I called kfree() on a
device after device_register() had been called (instead of using
put_device()). This seems to be a trap that is easily hit, so I added
some clarifications to the docbook comments for the device registration
functions. Looking further at the driver core code, I found that
device_create_vargs() contains the same bug.
The patches are on top of the driver core quilt.
[Patch 1/2] Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
[Patch 2/2] Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
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