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authorMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>2012-07-25 01:42:29 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-16 10:32:07 -0700
commita525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc (patch)
tree51198c610f85622549fd679bb3cf3e1940844829 /drivers/base/core.c
parentDrivers: hv: vmbus: Use the standard format string to format GUIDs (diff)
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driver core: free devres in device_release
device_del can happen anytime, so once it happens, the devres of the device will be freed inside device_del, but drivers can't know it has been deleted and may still add resources into the device, so memory leak is caused. This patch moves the devres_release_all to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index f338037a4f3d..c8fe4a563866 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -184,6 +184,17 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
struct device *dev = kobj_to_dev(kobj);
struct device_private *p = dev->p;
+ /*
+ * Some platform devices are driven without driver attached
+ * and managed resources may have been acquired. Make sure
+ * all resources are released.
+ *
+ * Drivers still can add resources into device after device
+ * is deleted but alive, so release devres here to avoid
+ * possible memory leak.
+ */
+ devres_release_all(dev);
+
if (dev->release)
dev->release(dev);
else if (dev->type && dev->type->release)
@@ -1196,13 +1207,6 @@ void device_del(struct device *dev)
bus_remove_device(dev);
driver_deferred_probe_del(dev);
- /*
- * Some platform devices are driven without driver attached
- * and managed resources may have been acquired. Make sure
- * all resources are released.
- */
- devres_release_all(dev);
-
/* Notify the platform of the removal, in case they
* need to do anything...
*/