Re: [PATCH] spi: spi-qcom-qspi: Use device managed memory for clk_bulk_data

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:40 PM Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currrently the memory for the clk_bulk_data of the QSPI controller
> is allocated with spi_alloc_master(). The bulk data pointer is passed
> to devm_clk_bulk_get() which saves it in clk_bulk_devres->clks. When
> the device is removed later devm_clk_bulk_release() is called and
> uses the bulk data referenced by the pointer to release the clocks.
> For this driver this results in accessing memory that has already
> been freed, since the memory allocated with spi_alloc_master() is
> released by spi_controller_release(), which is called before the
> managed resources are released.
>
> Use device managed memory for the clock bulk data to fix the issue
> described above.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>  drivers/spi/spi-qcom-qspi.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

It's a little ugly, but it seems somewhat same.  Basically we're
saying that the caller of devm_clk_bulk_get() is in charge of keeping
the list of clocks readable for the devm free function.  Maybe we
should also fix devm_clk_bulk_get() to always make a copy of the
clocks so we can relax this limitation (though that's a lot of extra
copying for the uncommon case), but even if we do change that your
change would still be OK.

...so from my point of view:

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Doug