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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/power/88pm860x_battery.c: use devm_request_threaded_irq


On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 06:16:35PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>>
>> devm_request_threaded_irq requests and irq that is freed when a driver
>> detaches. This patch uses devm_request_threaded_irq for irqs that are
>> requested in the probe function of a platform device and are only freed in
>> the remove function.
>>
>> Additionally, the original code used devm_kzalloc, but kfree. This would
>> lead to a double free. The problem was found using the following semantic
>> match (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):
>>
>> // <smpl>
>> @@
>> expression x,e;
>> @@
>> x = devm_kzalloc(...)
>> ... when != x = e
>> ?-kfree(x,...);
>> // </smpl>
>>
>> The error handling code in the probe function is also simplified in the
>> cases where there is now nothing to do other than return.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>>
>> ---
> [....]
>> @@ -994,9 +989,6 @@ static int pm860x_battery_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> struct pm860x_battery_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>>
>> power_supply_unregister(&info->battery);
>> - free_irq(info->irq_batt, info);
>> - free_irq(info->irq_cc, info);
>> - kfree(info);
>
> It is not safe to access battery ('struct power_supply') object after
> _unregister() (and irq handlers will surely do). Instead of removing
> free_irq(), the right fix would be to place the two calls before
> _unregister().

Thanks for the feedback. I will send a new patch.

julia


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