Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:08:06 +0800 | From | Shawn Guo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] soc: imx: gpcv2: Do not pass static memory as platform data |
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 02:47:10PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > 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.
I decided to drop these two patches. Triggered by Fabio's patch on top of you changes, I just took another look at them, and found that platform_device_add_data() can help us do the same thing in a nicer way.
Shawn
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10274969/
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