Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Call drm_encoder_cleanup() in error path

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Sat Mar 05 2016 - 07:40:31 EST


On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:11:16PM +0000, John Keeping wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 03:22:01PM -0800, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > The drm_encoder_cleanup() was missing both from the error path of
> > dw_hdmi_rockchip_bind(). This caused a crash when slub_debug was
> > enabled and we ended up deferring probe of HDMI at boot.
> >
> > This call isn't needed from unbind() because if dw_hdmi_bind() returns
> > no error then it takes over the job of freeing the encoder (in
> > dw_hdmi_unbind).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Does dw_hdmi-imx need a similar change? I wonder if it would be cleaner
> to push this into dw_hdmi_bind() if it affects all of the platforms..

I don't think moving it there would make sense - keep the initialisation
and cleanup together in the same file so that it's contained together.

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