Re: [Bug 206175] Fedora >= 5.4 kernels instantly freeze on boot without producing any display output

[Christoph Hellwig]

And actually one more idea after looking at what slab interactions
could exist.  platform_device_register_full frees the dma_mask
unconditionally, even if it didn't allocated it, which might lead
to weird memory corruption if we hit the failure path.  So let's try
something like this, replacing the earlier patch in that file.

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index b230beb6ccb4..04080a8d94e2 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -632,19 +632,6 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_register_full(
 	pdev->dev.of_node_reused = pdevinfo->of_node_reused;
 
 	if (pdevinfo->dma_mask) {
-		/*
-		 * This memory isn't freed when the device is put,
-		 * I don't have a nice idea for that though.  Conceptually
-		 * dma_mask in struct device should not be a pointer.
-		 * See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/9081
-		 */
-		pdev->dev.dma_mask =
-			kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)
-			goto err;
-
-		kmemleak_ignore(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
-
 		*pdev->dev.dma_mask = pdevinfo->dma_mask;
 		pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = pdevinfo->dma_mask;
 	}
@@ -670,7 +657,6 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_register_full(
 	if (ret) {
 err:
 		ACPI_COMPANION_SET(&pdev->dev, NULL);
-		kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
 		platform_device_put(pdev);
 		return ERR_PTR(ret);
 	}