netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: leds: Add support for "link" trigger

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20171101121611.GD12680@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:16:11 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: leds: Add support for "link" trigger

> @@ -123,6 +153,10 @@ int phy_led_triggers_register(struct phy_device *phy)
>  	while (i--)
>  		phy_led_trigger_unregister(&phy->phy_led_triggers[i]);
>  	devm_kfree(&phy->mdio.dev, phy->phy_led_triggers);
> +out_unreg_link:
> +	phy_led_trigger_unregister(phy->led_link_trigger);
> +out_free_link:
> +	devm_kfree(&phy->mdio.dev, phy->led_link_trigger);

Hi Maciej

The point of the devm_ API is that you don't need to worry about
freeing the memory. The core will do it, when the driver is removed.

I guess you are just copying the code above, which i would also say is
unnecessary.

	Andrew