Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: ccree: Replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc

From: Gilad Ben-Yossef
Date: Thu Jul 27 2017 - 10:26:28 EST


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:58 PM, <sunil.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It is recommended to use managed function devm_kzalloc, which
> simplifies driver cleanup paths and driver code.
> This patch does the following:
> (a) replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc.
> (b) drop kfree(), because memory allocated with devm_kzalloc() is
> automatically freed on driver detach, otherwise it leads to a double
> free.
> (c) remove unnecessary blank lines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes for v2:
>
> - Changes done as suggested by Greg-KH.
> - Rebased on top of next-20170718.
> ---
> Note:
>
> - Patch was tested and built(ARCH=arm) on next-20170718.
> No build issues reported, however it was not tested on
> real hardware.

I verified the patch set on CrytoCell HW and it's fine.

Unfortunately, my coding style fixes patch set made two of these to
fail to apply.
Following up is a rebased patch. There are no changes except resolving
conflicts.


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