From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
To: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: max1586 - fix a memory leak in max1586_pmic_remove()
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:45:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806084547.GB2347@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281072795.24426.3.camel@mola>
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:33:15PM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> In max1586_pmic_probe(), we allocate memory for max1586.
> In max1586_pmic_remove(), current implementation only free rdev
> which is a member of struct max1586_data.
> Thus, there is a small memory leak when we unload the module.
>
> This patch fixes the memory leak by passing max1586 to i2c clientdata,
> and properly kfree(max1586) in max1586_pmic_remove().
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Like with the max8660-patch:
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 5:33 Axel Lin
2010-08-06 8:45 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2010-08-06 11:18 ` Mark Brown
2010-08-07 9:46 ` Robert Jarzmik
2010-08-09 8:29 ` Liam Girdwood
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