Re: [PATCH] spi/pl022: Fix chipselects pointer computation

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Sep 03 2012 - 05:11:09 EST


On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Roland Stigge <stigge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The new chip select handling via GPIO introduced a pointer computation bug:
>
> (int *) pl022 + sizeof(struct pl022)
>
> doesn't point to the data immediately after the actual struct pl022 (as was
> intended) but to a multiple of bytes after it because of the (int *) type.
>
> Replacing the kludgy pointer arithmetic with managed memory allocation for the
> chip selects.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for fixing this! And thanks to Shiraz for spotting the problem,
Mark you could add a:

Reported-by: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.linux.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

when applying this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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