Re: [RFC PATCH] use dev_set_name(,NULL) to prevent leaking

[Yinghai Lu]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:42, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> those about 1/3 dev_set_name() etc.
> 
> put_device()?
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/base/core.c;h=4aa527b8a91381289eb175b33f46e3e418d10374;hb=HEAD#l848
> 
ok, normal release path seems right, put_device will free the name.

how about other fail path, that there is not put_device involved?

YH
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