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

From Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: ccree: Replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc
Date 2017-07-28 07:00 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 05:27:32PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> From: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@techveda.org>
> 
> 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@techveda.org>
> [gby: rebase on top of latest coding style fixes changes]
> Acked-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>

None of these 3 applied to my tree :(

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[PATCH 1/3] staging: ccree: Replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> - 2017-07-27 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: ccree: Replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-07-28 07:00 +0200

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