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authorBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>2007-05-07 11:13:25 +0000
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-05-08 01:15:15 -0400
commit9fd9f9b669ca71f7b3a7709d02d305c3d428d2fe (patch)
treea5633e6cb443ad7c51b567f06fa25453e114aa9d
parentd17ecb23b2e5ca174c0f5ce6be42cb3909a02ed0 (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/dm9000.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
index 8cc1174e7f64..0e338539b822 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
@@ -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");