17 Dec
2024
17 Dec
'24
8:04 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 03:55:38PM +0800, Ma Ke wrote:
The reference count of the device incremented in device_initialize() is not decremented when device_add() fails. Add a put_device() call before returning from the function to decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it could cause memory leak.
That is not what you did here. Please be more careful when sending out "bugfixes" like this.
thanks,
greg k-h