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[PATCH] Fix device_attribute memory leak in device_del

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dev->devt_attr is allocated in device_add() but it is never freed in
device_del() in the drivers/base/core.c file (reported by kmemleak).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Catalin Marinas 2006-11-25 11:09:30 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 533221fbaf
commit 82189b9807
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/base/core.c
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@ -591,8 +591,10 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev)
if (parent)
klist_del(&dev->knode_parent);
if (dev->devt_attr)
if (dev->devt_attr) {
device_remove_file(dev, dev->devt_attr);
kfree(dev->devt_attr);
}
if (dev->class) {
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem");
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, dev->bus_id);