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Date:	Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:19:14 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devm_kfree

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 05:17:26PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> And I guess that eg using kfree to free something allocated using
> devm_kzalloc would be completely wrong, leading to a dangling
> pointer?

I'd expect that matching kfree() with devm_kzalloc() would lead to an
attempt to double free whenever the devm_ mechanism kicks in.
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