Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: Initialize pinctrl_dev.node

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The struct pinctrl_dev's node field is not properly set up, which means
> the .prev and .next fields will be NULL. That's not something that the
> linked list code can deal with, so extra care must be taken when using
> these fields. An example of this is introduced in commit 3429fb3cda34
> ("pinctrl: Fix panic when pinctrl devices with hogs are unregistered")
> where list_del() is made conditional on the pinctrl device being part
> of the pinctrl device list. This is to ensure that list_del() won't
> crash upon encountering a NULL pointer in .prev and/or .next.
>
> After initializing the list head there's no need to jump through these
> extra hoops and list_del() will work unconditionally. This is because
> the initialized list head points to itself and therefore the .prev and
> .next fields can be properly dereferenced.
>
> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nice catch!

Sorry for my sloppy semantics...

Patch applied, had to rebase it with patch -p1 < foo.patch
so check the result on my devel branch or linux-next
soon-ish.

Yours,
Linus Walleij