spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Sat, 5 Sep 2015 22:46:54 +0000 (01:46 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:37:50 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
commit69e686057711bf17907ba68e19ceffdfca80d788
treed1d775d71cc0039bef1f69e6a87ed90d51b8c82e
parent919845cb331e066a042a8060e84bb9dc6ba390bf
spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()

commit a394d635193b641f2c86ead5ada5b115d57c51f8 upstream.

Actually, spi_master_put() after spi_alloc_master() must _not_ be followed
by kfree(). The memory is already freed with the call to spi_master_put()
through spi_master_class, which registers a release function. Calling both
spi_master_put() and kfree() results in often nasty (and delayed) crashes
elsewhere in the kernel, often in the networking stack.

This reverts commit eb4af0f5349235df2e4a5057a72fc8962d00308a.

Link to patch and concerns: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/3/269
or
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1209.0/00790.html

Alexey Klimov: This revert becomes valid after
94c69f765f1b4a658d96905ec59928e3e3e07e6a when spi-imx.c
has been fixed and there is no need to call kfree() so comment
for spi_alloc_master() should be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <alexey.klimov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/spi/spi.c