Re: [PATCH 2/3] extcon: Change field type of 'dev' in extcon_devstructure

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Sep 01 2013 - 20:38:16 EST


On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:20:07AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> - edev->dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct device), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!edev->dev)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - edev->dev->parent = dev;
> - edev->dev->class = extcon_class;
> - edev->dev->release = extcon_dev_release;
> + edev->dev.parent = dev;
> + edev->dev.class = extcon_class;
> + edev->dev.release = extcon_dev_release;

You didn't change extcon_dev_release() to properly free all of the
memory you allocated here, otherwise the slab allocator will oops when
you try to call it...

thanks,

greg k-h
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