Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] eeprom: sunxi: Move the SID driver to the eeprom framework

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Fri Feb 20 2015 - 12:48:06 EST


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 05:08:40PM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> +static int sunxi_sid_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + const struct of_device_id *device;
> + struct eeprom_sid *sid;
> + struct resource *res;
> + struct eeprom_device *eeprom;
> + struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> + int rval;
> +
> + sid = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*sid), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!sid)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + eeprom = &sid->eeprom;
...
> + rval = eeprom_register(eeprom);
> + if (rval)
> + return rval;
...
> +static int sunxi_sid_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + struct eeprom_device *eeprom = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +
> + return eeprom_unregister(eeprom);

As pointed out in the previous patch, this is unsafe as the eeprom
structure contains a struct device.

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