# \[PATCH 4/4\] drivers/video/backlight/adp5520\_bl.c: use devm\_ functions

- From: Julia Lawall \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-01-20 21:26:38 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2012/01/3811787
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/kernel-janitors/2012/01/3811786/t.md

```text
From: Julia Lawall <redacted>

The various devm_ functions allocate memory that is released when a driver
detaches.  This patch uses these functions for data that is allocated in
the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the remove
function.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>

---
 drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c |    6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c
index 2e630bf..4911ea7 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct adp5520_bl *data;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (data = NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	if (data->pdata  = NULL) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "missing platform data\n");
-		kfree(data);
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
@@ -314,7 +313,6 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 				       &adp5520_bl_ops, &props);
 	if (IS_ERR(bl)) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register backlight\n");
-		kfree(data);
 		return PTR_ERR(bl);
 	}
 
@@ -326,7 +324,6 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register sysfs\n");
 		backlight_device_unregister(bl);
-		kfree(data);
 	}
 
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, bl);
@@ -348,7 +345,6 @@ static int __devexit adp5520_bl_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 				&adp5520_bl_attr_group);
 
 	backlight_device_unregister(bl);
-	kfree(data);
 
 	return 0;
 }

```