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| author |   Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> | 2014-02-07 09:43:21 +0100 |
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| committer |   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> | 2014-04-08 13:20:39 +0100 |
| commit | 35762a47c0a24072a689cbd98ecf8c62b037ef8a (patch) | |
| tree | 5c77d93917fd60eb2fb3b0b4f9a3c3fb5d9d4383 /drivers/video | |
| parent | Linux 3.14-rc6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-35762a47c0a24072a689cbd98ecf8c62b037ef8a.tar.xz linux-dev-35762a47c0a24072a689cbd98ecf8c62b037ef8a.zip | |
backlight: core: Replace kfree with put_device
As per the comments on device_register, we shouldn't call kfree()
right after a device_register() failure. Instead call put_device(),
which in turn will call bl_device_release resulting in a kfree to the
full structure.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c index 5d05555fe841..20b276e1f894 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const char *name, rc = device_register(&new_bd->dev); if (rc) { - kfree(new_bd); + put_device(&new_bd->dev); return ERR_PTR(rc); } |