linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: ccree: Replace kzalloc with devm

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:56:01 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc:     linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>,
        Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: ccree: Replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 05:27:32PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> From: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
> 
> It is recommended to use managed function devm_kzalloc, which
> simplifies driver cleanup paths and driver code.
> This patch does the following:
> (a) replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc.
> (b) drop kfree(), because memory allocated with devm_kzalloc() is
> automatically freed on driver detach, otherwise it leads to a double
> free.
> (c) remove unnecessary blank lines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
> [gby: rebase on top of latest coding style fixes changes]
> Acked-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>

None of these 3 applied to my tree :(