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DM9000: fix use of kfree() on net device 

The DM9000 network driver is calling kfree() on an netdev
causing the system to oops if the probe fails. The right
thing to do is call free_netdev().

Thanks to Russell King for spotting this.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Ben Dooks 2007-05-07 11:13:25 +00:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent d17ecb23b2
commit 9fd9f9b669
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/dm9000.c
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@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ dm9000_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
printk("%s: not found (%d).\n", CARDNAME, ret);
dm9000_release_board(pdev, db);
kfree(ndev);
free_netdev(ndev);
return ret;
}
@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ dm9000_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
unregister_netdev(ndev);
dm9000_release_board(pdev, (board_info_t *) ndev->priv);
kfree(ndev); /* free device structure */
free_netdev(ndev); /* free device structure */
PRINTK1("clean_module() exit\n");