Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] of/platform: Use platform_device interface

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
<ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> of_platform_device_create_pdata() was using of_device_add() to create
> the devices, but of_platform_device_destroy was using
> of_platform_device_destroy().
>
> of_device_add(), do not call insert_resource(), which initializes the
> parent field of the resource structure, needed by release_resource(),
> called by of_platform_device_destroy().

This is because some DTs have overlapping resources and doing this
would break things. If you look at the git history, this was fixed and
then reverted by Grant.

Rob

> This leads to a NULL pointer deference.
>
> This patch, replaces of_device_add() with platform_device_data().
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/of/platform.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> index a01f57c..f011f57 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> @@ -183,8 +183,9 @@ static struct platform_device *of_platform_device_create_pdata(
>         dev->dev.bus = &platform_bus_type;
>         dev->dev.platform_data = platform_data;
>         of_dma_configure(&dev->dev, dev->dev.of_node);
> +       dev->name = dev_name(&dev->dev);
>
> -       if (of_device_add(dev) != 0) {
> +       if (platform_device_add(dev) != 0) {
>                 of_dma_deconfigure(&dev->dev);
>                 platform_device_put(dev);
>                 goto err_clear_flag;
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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