Re: [PATCH 2/2] soc: imx: gpc: Do not pass static memory as platform data

[Andrey Smirnov]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2018-01-10 17:16, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> Platform device core assumes the ownership of dev.platform_data as
>> well as that it is dynamically allocated and it will try to kfree it
>> as a part of platform_device_release(). Change the code to pass
>> kzalloc'ed chunk of memory instead of a pointer to a static memory to
>> avoid causing a BUG() when calling platform_device_put().
>
> I tried to get around that by setting platform_data to null before
> unregistring the device, see:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=151553216030129&w=2
>

Sorry should've commented in that thread: I saw that in your code, but
it felt to me like playing with fire a bit. IMHO calling
platform_device_put() should just work and not depend on certain field
being set to NULL prior.

>
> This solutions still seems to miss unregistering the platform devices,
> which shows when binding the driver again:
>

Absolutely, this patch solves a problem, not the problem :-) I think
solving the problem is orthogonal to this and warrants a separate
patch.

> root@colibri-imx6:~# echo 20dc000.gpc >
> /sys/bus/platform/drivers/imx-gpc/unbind
> [   80.702627] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.0: Dropping the link to
> 20dc000.gpc
> [   80.710808] genpd_remove: unable to remove PU
> [   80.716408] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.1: Dropping the link to
> 20dc000.gpc
> root@colibri-imx6:~# find /sys -name *pgc-power*
> /sys/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20dc000.gpc/imx-pgc-power-domain.0
> /sys/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20dc000.gpc/imx-pgc-power-domain.1
> /sys/bus/platform/devices/imx-pgc-power-domain.0
> /sys/bus/platform/devices/imx-pgc-power-domain.1
> root@colibri-imx6:~# echo 20dc000.gpc >
> /sys/bus/platform/drivers/imx-gpc/bind
> [   89.002754] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   89.007411] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 516 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31
> sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x74
> [   89.015057] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
> '/devices/soc0/soc/2000000.aips-bus/20dc000.gpc/imx-pgc-power-domain.0'
>
>
>>
>> The problem can be reproduced by artificially enabling the error path
>> of platform_device_add() call (around line 452).
>>
>> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> This patch is a follow up to fix one of the bugs discussed in
>> lkml.kernel.org/r/3f836677c6e98aaf01bc1ac8c3410083@xxxxxxxx
>>
>>  drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c | 9 ++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c b/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c
>> index 47e7aa963dbb..ec8b79abebac 100644
>> --- a/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/soc/imx/gpc.c
>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/pm_domain.h>
>>  #include <linux/regmap.h>
>>  #include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
>> +#include <linux/slab.h>
>>
>>  #define GPC_CNTR             0x000
>>
>> @@ -428,13 +429,19 @@ static int imx_gpc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>                       if (domain_index >= of_id_data->num_domains)
>>                               continue;
>>
>> -                     domain = &imx_gpc_domains[domain_index];
>> +                     domain = kzalloc(sizeof(*domain), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> I guess you could use just kalloc here since you memcpy below.
>

Good point. Will change in v2.

Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov