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[V2,01/22] net-next: mediatek: use mdiobus_free() in favour of kfree()

Message ID 1462788254-40572-2-git-send-email-john@phrozen.org
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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John Crispin May 9, 2016, 10:03 a.m. UTC
The driver currently uses kfree() to clear the mii_bus. This is not the
correct way to clear the memory and mdiobus_free() should be used instead.
This patch fixes the two instances where this happens in the driver.

Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Andrew Lunn May 9, 2016, 12:07 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 12:03:53PM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> The driver currently uses kfree() to clear the mii_bus. This is not the
> correct way to clear the memory and mdiobus_free() should be used instead.
> This patch fixes the two instances where this happens in the driver.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>

Thanks John

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

       Andrew
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index c984462..28f169f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@  static int mtk_mdio_init(struct mtk_eth *eth)
 	return 0;
 
 err_free_bus:
-	kfree(eth->mii_bus);
+	mdiobus_free(eth->mii_bus);
 
 err_put_node:
 	of_node_put(mii_np);
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@  static void mtk_mdio_cleanup(struct mtk_eth *eth)
 
 	mdiobus_unregister(eth->mii_bus);
 	of_node_put(eth->mii_bus->dev.of_node);
-	kfree(eth->mii_bus);
+	mdiobus_free(eth->mii_bus);
 }
 
 static inline void mtk_irq_disable(struct mtk_eth *eth, u32 mask)