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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] soc: imx: gpcv2: Do not pass static memory as platform data
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:07:47AM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> Platform device core assumes the ownership of dev.platform_data as
> well as that it is dynamically allocated and it will try to kfree it
> as a part of platform_device_release(). Change the code to pass
> kzalloc'ed chunk of memory instead of a pointer to a static memory to
> avoid causing a BUG() when calling platform_device_put().
>
> The problem can be reproduced by artificially enabling the error path
> of platform_device_add() call (around line 357).
>
> Note that this change also allows us to constify imx7_pgc_domains,
> since we no longer need to be able to modify it.
>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>

Applied both, thanks.

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