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Date:   Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:01:10 +0100
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()

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@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Juergen

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