[PATCH v2] macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Nov 30 20:23:48 AEDT 2022


On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 11:25:51 +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
> bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,
> it need be freed when of_device_register() fails, call put_device()
> to give up the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that
> it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0.
> macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be
> removed.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/5ca86eae55a2f006e6c1edd2029b2cacb6979515

cheers


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