Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] add FPGA manager core

[Josh Cartwright]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:10:13PM -0500, atull wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Josh Cartwright wrote:
[..]
> > > +struct fpga_manager *of_fpga_mgr_get(struct device_node *node)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct fpga_manager *mgr;
> > > +	struct device *dev;
> > > +
> > > +	if (!node)
> > > +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > > +
> > > +	dev = class_find_device(fpga_mgr_class, NULL, node,
> > > +				fpga_mgr_of_node_match);
> > > +	if (!dev)
> > > +		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> > > +
> > > +	mgr = to_fpga_manager(dev);
> > > +	put_device(dev);
> > 
> > Who's ensuring the FPGA manager device's lifetime between _get and _put?
> 
> Well... get_device and put_device are not sufficient?

Sorry if I was too opaque.

You've just put_device()'d the only reference to the device you had
here, so nothing is preventing from the device from being ripped away
while it's being used.

You should remove the put_device() call here, and add a corresponding
put_device() in fpga_mgr_put().

The module refcounting is also a bit strange, as you are
acquiring/releasing a reference to THIS_MODULE, but you also should care
about the lower-level driver's module refcount.

[..]
> > > +	dt_label = of_get_property(mgr->dev.of_node, "label", NULL);
> > > +	if (dt_label)
> > > +		ret = dev_set_name(&mgr->dev, "%s", dt_label);
> > > +	else
> > > +		ret = dev_set_name(&mgr->dev, "fpga%d", id);
> > 
> > I'm wondering if an alias {} node is better for this.
> 
> I could look into that.  Is there an example of that you particularly
> like for this?

Look at i2c's usage of the of_alias_*() functions.

  Josh

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