Re: [PATCH] regulator: max1586 - fix a memory leak inmax1586_pmic_remove()

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Fri Aug 06 2010 - 04:45:54 EST


On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:33:15PM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> In max1586_pmic_probe(), we allocate memory for max1586.
> In max1586_pmic_remove(), current implementation only free rdev
> which is a member of struct max1586_data.
> Thus, there is a small memory leak when we unload the module.
>
> This patch fixes the memory leak by passing max1586 to i2c clientdata,
> and properly kfree(max1586) in max1586_pmic_remove().
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>

Like with the max8660-patch:

Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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