Re: [PATCH] gpio: bcm-kona: memory corruption fix

[Alexandre Courbot]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In one instance the base address of the internal controller state
> structure is passed into a function doing writel to an offset of
> the pointer passed in is used, instead of the register base.
>
> Once I found the bug, I also went back to check for other sparse
> warnings in the file, but found none. This one, however, triggered:
>
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c:552:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c:552:47:    expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*reg_base
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c:552:47:    got struct bcm_kona_gpio *kona_gpio
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c:556:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c:556:47:    expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*reg_base
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c:556:47:    got struct bcm_kona_gpio *kona_gpio
>
> As far as I can tell, this bug has been here for a long time and is
> not new, but I found it when hunting down another heisenbug on this
> platform.

Ouch. Thanks for fixing this.

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
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