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SubjectRe: [PATCH] device core: fix dma_mask handling in platform_device_register_full
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:14:23PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:07:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Ever since the generic platform device code started allocating DMA masks
> > itself the code to allocate and leak a private DMA mask in
> > platform_device_register_full has been superflous. More so the fact that
> > it unconditionally frees the DMA mask allocation in the failure path
> > can lead to slab corruption if the function fails later on for a device
> > where it didn't allocate the mask. Just remove the offending code.
> >
> > Fixes: cdfee5623290 ("driver core: initialize a default DMA mask for platform device")
> > Reported-by: Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@gmx.com>
> > Tested-by: Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@gmx.com>
>
> No s-o-b from you? :(
>
> I can take this, or Linus, you can take this now if you want to as well:

Sorry, here it is:

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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