Commit 2b43a460 authored by Guenter Roeck's avatar Guenter Roeck Committed by Luis Henriques

spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()

commit a394d635 upstream.

Actually, spi_master_put() after spi_alloc_master() must _not_ be followed
by kfree(). The memory is already freed with the call to spi_master_put()
through spi_master_class, which registers a release function. Calling both
spi_master_put() and kfree() results in often nasty (and delayed) crashes
elsewhere in the kernel, often in the networking stack.

This reverts commit eb4af0f5.

Link to patch and concerns: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/3/269
or
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1209.0/00790.html

Alexey Klimov: This revert becomes valid after
94c69f76 when spi-imx.c
has been fixed and there is no need to call kfree() so comment
for spi_alloc_master() should be fixed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Klimov <alexey.klimov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
parent 6e32c6db
......@@ -1458,8 +1458,7 @@ static struct class spi_master_class = {
*
* The caller is responsible for assigning the bus number and initializing
* the master's methods before calling spi_register_master(); and (after errors
* adding the device) calling spi_master_put() and kfree() to prevent a memory
* leak.
* adding the device) calling spi_master_put() to prevent a memory leak.
*/
struct spi_master *spi_alloc_master(struct device *dev, unsigned size)
{
......
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