Re: [PATCH V3] mfd: wm8994-core: Don't use managed regulator bulk get API

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Thu Oct 27 2016 - 10:41:32 EST


On 27-10-16, 10:14, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:09:30AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > The kernel WARNs and then crashes today if wm8994_device_init() fails
> > after calling devm_regulator_bulk_get().
> >
> > That happens because there are multiple devices involved here and the
> > order in which resources are freed isn't correct.
> >
> > The regulators are added as children of wm8994->dev.
> > devm_regulator_bulk_get() receives wm8994->dev as the device, though it
> > gets the same regulators which were added as children of wm8994->dev
> > earlier.
> >
> > During failures, the children are removed first and the core eventually
> > calls regulator_unregister() for them. As regulator_put() was never done
> > for them (opposite of devm_regulator_bulk_get()), the kernel WARNs at
> >
> > WARN_ON(rdev->open_count);
> >
> > And eventually it crashes from debugfs_remove_recursive().
> >
> > --------x------------------x----------------
>
> The back track seems to have got really really long again.

Not just that, even the code moved a version back.

Sorry for the noise, the right version is sent now :(

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viresh