[alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: soc: fix invalid free of devm_ allocated data

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Wed Mar 20 11:06:34 CET 2013


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 01:45:34PM +0200, Silviu-Mihai Popescu wrote:
> The objects allocated by devm_* APIs are managed by devres and are freed when
> the device is detached. Hence there is no need to use kfree() explicitly.

...but I applied this anyway since it's clearly an improvement and a
small leak is better than a crash.
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