On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:08:27AM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> +void soc_free_devices(struct platform_device *devices, int nr_devs)
> +{
> + struct platform_device *dev = devices;
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < nr_devs; i++) {
> + struct resource *res = dev->resource;
> + platform_device_unregister(dev++);
> + kfree(res);
> + }
> + kfree(devices);
Utterly unsafe. Repeat after me: kfreeing the memory assocated with any
kobject is asking for an OOPS. Do not do it.
There's a reason that platform_device_alloc() and friends exist. If you
want to unregister platform devices, use those functions. Don't try to
invent your own buggy variants.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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