linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hid: intel-ish-hid: use put

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1804261437040.28147@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:37:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
cc:     srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com, benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hid: intel-ish-hid: use put_device() instead of
 kfree()

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, 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>

Applied, thank you.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs