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| author | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2019-05-10 13:35:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2019-05-13 11:43:53 +0300 |
| commit | 2acb9bdae92d0662cd4fa11c481e80b6202b5630 (patch) | |
| tree | c7ab1416d6435c0caeb5cd664d68998c5b2444c8 /drivers/cpufreq | |
| parent | df24014abe3694e7c34ce5e50248611b7a93fe83 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2acb9bdae92d0662cd4fa11c481e80b6202b5630.tar.xz | |
cpufreq: Explain the kobject_put() in cpufreq_policy_alloc()
It may not be particularly clear why the kobject_put() after
failing kobject_init_and_add() in cpufreq_policy_alloc() is not
redundant, so add a comment to explain that.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpufreq')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c index c66eefe928c5..57a3853a55fb 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -1134,6 +1134,11 @@ static struct cpufreq_policy *cpufreq_policy_alloc(unsigned int cpu) cpufreq_global_kobject, "policy%u", cpu); if (ret) { pr_err("%s: failed to init policy->kobj: %d\n", __func__, ret); + /* + * The entire policy object will be freed below, but the extra + * memory allocated for the kobject name needs to be freed by + * releasing the kobject. + */ kobject_put(&policy->kobj); goto err_free_real_cpus; } |