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-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/pti.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/pti.c b/drivers/misc/pti.c
index bb6f9255c17..be4857358d9 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/pti.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/pti.c
@@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pti_request_masterchannel);
* a master, channel ID address
* used to write to PTI HW.
*
- * @mc: master, channel apeture ID address to be released.
+ * @mc: master, channel apeture ID address to be released. This
+ * will de-allocate the structure via kfree().
*/
void pti_release_masterchannel(struct pti_masterchannel *mc)
{
@@ -581,7 +582,7 @@ static int pti_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
static int pti_char_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
pti_release_masterchannel(filp->private_data);
- kfree(filp->private_data);
+ filp->private_data = NULL;
return 0;
}