Commit 35762a47 authored Feb 07, 2014 by Levente Kurusa Committed by Lee Jones Apr 08, 2014

backlight: core: Replace kfree with put_device



As per the comments on device_register, we shouldn't call kfree()
right after a device_register() failure. Instead call put_device(),
which in turn will call bl_device_release resulting in a kfree to the
full structure.

Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

parent fa389e22

drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ struct backlight_device backlight_device_register(const char name,

		rc = device_register(&new_bd->dev);
		if (rc) {
		kfree(new_bd);
		put_device(&new_bd->dev);
		return ERR_PTR(rc);
		}