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Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:26:19 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] resource: add a not device managed
 request_free_mem_region variant
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 06:28:30PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> Previously we would loudly crash if someone passed NULL to
> devm_request_free_mem_region(), but now it will silently work and the
> result will leak. Perhaps this wants a:

We'd still instantly crash due to the dev_name dereference, right?