From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752833Ab1LZQRc (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:17:32 -0500 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.82]:22716 "EHLO mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751417Ab1LZQR3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:17:29 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,411,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="136901142" Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:17:26 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@localhost6.localdomain6 To: Mark Brown cc: Samuel Ortiz , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devm_kfree In-Reply-To: <20111226142354.GI8722@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Message-ID: References: <1324661974-17281-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> <20111226120855.GB17760@sirena.org.uk> <20111226142354.GI8722@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org And I guess that eg using kfree to free something allocated using devm_kzalloc would be completely wrong, leading to a dangling pointer? julia