linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] sound/soc/soc-core.c: drop kfree of devm

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Date:	Sat, 4 Aug 2012 15:32:04 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>, matthias@...hlcke.net,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sound/soc/soc-core.c: drop kfree of devm_kzalloc's
 data

On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 02:00:32PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> Using kfree to free data allocated with devm_kzalloc causes double frees.
> 
> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Might it make more sense to devm_kfree() them?  If we don't expect to
immediately abort driver instantiation it'll save having them lying
around for the entire lifetime of the device even if they're not
strictly leaked.
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