Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] soc: imx: gpcv2: Do not pass static memory as platform data
From: Andrey Smirnov
Date: Sat May 19 2018 - 17:40:25 EST
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Andrey Smirnov
<andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx> 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 use
> platform_device_add_data() n instead of a pointer to a static memory
> to avoid causing a BUG() when calling platform_device_put().
>
> The problem can be reproduced by artificially enabling the error path
> of platform_device_add() call (around line 357).
>
> Note that this change also allows us to constify imx7_pgc_domains,
> since we no longer need to be able to modify it.
>
Shawn,
What's the status of these two patches? Do I need to change anything
or are they good to go?
Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov