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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
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On 14/11/17 18:05, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 02:16:09PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
>> On 13/11/17 10:20, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>> Fix child-node lookup during probe, which ended up searching the whole
>>> device tree depth-first starting at the parent rather than just matching
>>> on its children.
>>>
>>> To make things worse, the parent mfd node was also prematurely freed.
>>>
>>> Note that the nodes returned from the two calls to of_parse_phandle()
>>> are also leaking, but fixing that is a bit more involved as pointers to
>>> node fields are being stored for later use.
>>
>> Is using a devm_kstrdup() to remember the full_name sufficient so get
>> each of the FIXMEs cleaned up as well?
>
> Yeah, that may be sufficient, but looking closer at this now, it seems
> the name pointers (su1_fb and su2_fb) are only used as booleans, and the
> fb_name pointer in struct as3711_bl_data is never used at all.
>
> So cleaning that up somehow (e.g. and maybe even dropping non-dt
> probing) would also work.
>
> But since this is a separate, and less critical issue, I think it needs
> to be done as a follow up to this one.

To be honest it was adding the separate and less critical FIXMEs into
the patches that attracted my attention in the first place. ;-)


Daniel.

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