Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: mt6370: Fix potential UAF issue
From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Dec 02 2022 - 07:07:58 EST
On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 11:35:35AM +0800, ChiYuan Huang wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> 於 2022年12月1日 週四 晚上7:43寫道:
> > > The original code uses i2c dev as the parent in order to reuse
> > > the 'regulator_of_get_init_data'. But this will cause regulation
> > > constraint devres attached to i2c dev, not the mfd cell platform
> > > device.
> > This is a general issue which will affect a lot of MFDs, we would be
> > better to fix this by changing the API to provide a device to be used
> > for the devres allocations separately to the one used for looking up the
> > DT.
> Not to affect too much, the better way may change the 'regulator_register' API.
> Append it as regulator_register(dev, .....
> This could separate device object with devres allocation and DT lookup.
Yes, I think so - a new optional argument.
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