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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()

To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>, boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 15:31:39 +0100
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:31:54 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 06/03/18 11:10, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
> if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
> reference initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>

Committed to xen/tip.git for-linus-4.16a


Juergen

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- [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()
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