Re: [REGRESSION] component: add support for releasing match data

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:28:34PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Something similar to a segfault. It's trying to call 0x6b6b6b6b6b which
> is POISON_FREE.
> 
> mc appears to be freed already, so calling mc->release would jump to
> invalid data.

It seems that my devm foo wasn't quite up to scratch.  Quite why it
doesn't show here while testing it (I have patches for the etnaviv
GPU driver, which I'm regularly inserting/removing) I'm not sure.

Please test this patch - it seems "no worse" for me (in that it didn't
crash before, and it still doesn't crash.)

Thanks.

 drivers/base/component.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/component.c b/drivers/base/component.c
index 89f5cf68d80a..05cd26c02449 100644
--- a/drivers/base/component.c
+++ b/drivers/base/component.c
@@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ static void component_match_release(struct device *master,
 		if (mc->release)
 			mc->release(master, mc->data);
 	}
+
+	kfree(match->compare);
 }
 
 static void devm_component_match_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
@@ -221,14 +223,14 @@ static int component_match_realloc(struct device *dev,
 	if (match->alloc == num)
 		return 0;
 
-	new = devm_kmalloc_array(dev, num, sizeof(*new), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new = kmalloc_array(num, sizeof(*new), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (match->compare) {
 		memcpy(new, match->compare, sizeof(*new) *
 					    min(match->num, num));
-		devm_kfree(dev, match->compare);
+		kfree(match->compare);
 	}
 	match->compare = new;
 	match->alloc = num;


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