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mwifiex: don't do unbalanced free()'ing in cleanup_if()

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The cleanup_if() callback is the inverse of init_if(). We allocate our
'card' interface structure in the probe() function, but we free it in
cleanup_if(). That gives a few problems:
(a) we leak this memory if probe() fails before we reach init_if()
(b) we can't safely utilize 'card' after cleanup_if() -- namely, in
    remove() or suspend(), both of which might race with the cleanup
    paths in our asynchronous FW initialization path

Solution: just use devm_kzalloc(), which will free this structure
properly when the device is removed -- and drop the set_drvdata(...,
NULL), since the driver core does this for us. This also removes the
temptation to use drvdata == NULL as a hack for checking if the device
has been "cleaned up."

I *do* leave the set_drvdata(..., NULL) for the hacky SDIO
mwifiex_recreate_adapter(), since the device core won't be able to clear
that one for us.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Brian Norris 2016-10-26 16:29:20 -07:00 • committed by Kalle Valo
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