linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Fix rio watchdog probe function

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:18:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Fix rio watchdog probe function

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:03:28 +0200 (CEST)

> After sucessfully registering the misc device the driver iounmaps the
> hardware registers and kfree's the device data structure. Ouch !
> 
> This was introduced with commit e42311d75 (riowatchdog: Convert to
> pure OF driver) and went unnoticed for more than a year :)
> 
> Return success instead of dropping into the error cleanup code path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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