Re: [PATCH v3.1 4/4] of/platform: Use platform_device interface

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

Hello Greg

Sorry for the mess. I did not want to spam the mailing list too much.

Repacking and resending. Thanks!

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 01:52:10PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>> of_platform_device_create_pdata() was using of_device_add() to create
>> the devices, but of_platform_device_destroy was using
>> platform_device_unregister() to free them.
>>
>> 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 leads to a NULL pointer
>> deference.
>>
>> Instead of fixing the NULL pointer deference, what could hide other bugs,
>> this patch, replaces of_device_add() with platform_device_data().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> v3.1 Fix comments by Rob Herring, thanks!
>
> 3.1?
>
> Please resend the whole series, this is a mess, I can't find where this
> goes at all...
>
> greg k-h



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Ricardo Ribalda
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