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On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM Tomasz Duszynski <tduszyns@gmail.com> wrote:
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> So perhaps that change deserves a separate patch because it smells like
> a code cleanup.

Not really. This patch fixes the order in which resources are torn
down on release().
You do this by fixing the order by which devm-resources are allocated
on probe().

So it's a fundamental use-after-free fix, and not really a cleanup.
But I'm happy to split into multiple patches if you want ?