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Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()
To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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On 06/03/18 11:10, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
> if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
> reference initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>

Committed to xen/tip.git for-linus-4.16a


Juergen