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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/spi/spi-bitbang.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/spi/spi-bitbang.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-bitbang.c b/drivers/spi/spi-bitbang.c index 8c11355dec23..0056623dfc6b 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-bitbang.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-bitbang.c @@ -414,10 +414,16 @@ static int spi_bitbang_unprepare_hardware(struct spi_master *spi) * This routine registers the spi_master, which will process requests in a * dedicated task, keeping IRQs unblocked most of the time. To stop * processing those requests, call spi_bitbang_stop(). + * + * On success, this routine will take a reference to master. The caller is + * responsible for calling spi_bitbang_stop() to decrement the reference and + * spi_master_put() as counterpart of spi_alloc_master() to prevent a memory + * leak. */ int spi_bitbang_start(struct spi_bitbang *bitbang) { struct spi_master *master = bitbang->master; + int ret; if (!master || !bitbang->chipselect) return -EINVAL; @@ -449,7 +455,11 @@ int spi_bitbang_start(struct spi_bitbang *bitbang) /* driver may get busy before register() returns, especially * if someone registered boardinfo for devices */ - return spi_register_master(master); + ret = spi_register_master(spi_master_get(master)); + if (ret) + spi_master_put(master); + + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_bitbang_start); |